Two Growing Hospitals That are Dedicated to the Area and Its Residents…

A growing population requires greater medical services, and both of Warren County’s hospitals have undergone large expansions in recent years in an attempt to provide more and better care to the region’s populace.

Hackettstown Community Hospital, which provides service to the northern section of the county, and adjacent communities, is an Adventist Healthcare facility, emphasizing care of the whole patient, including patient education and counseling. Open since 1973, HCH offers acute care inpatient services, 24-hour emergency services, and diagnostic, surgical and outpatient services, including counseling and addiction services.

Growing with the surrounding community, Hackettstown Community Hospital has nearly completed its $27.5 million, 60,000 square foot addition to its West Wing, a project that will provide a new outpatient entrance and additional parking, two additional floors on the one existing West Wing floor, and expansion of the existing second, third and fourth floors of the main hospital building. A second floor on the West Wing allows additional space for surgery, with one additional operating room, and four new minor procedure rooms. The second floor will also provide new outpatient spaces for cardiopulmonary and ambulatory surgery prep and recovery, as well as a new outpatient entrance with lobby and registration area. The radiology/imaging department space will be doubled and an additional radiographic room will be added, as well as a new state-of-the-art CT scanner.

The third floor will house a new, state-of-the-art eight-bed Intensive Care Unit/Critical Care Unit, and a new 21-bed Step-down/Telemetry Unit. The area vacated by the former ICU/CCU and Step-down Unit will allow for the expansion of the existing Medical/Surgical area, placing all Med/Surg beds on the same floor. The progressive Childbirth Family Center will then be expanded to occupy the entire fourth floor, with twenty private rooms. The existing West Wing first floor will be used for central supply and a stock room, with a new receiving entrance and expanded Materials Management area.

All of these renovations come on the heels of a multi-phase, $17 million renovation focusing on the interior and exterior of the existing facility, completed in 2002. Plans are currently underway to add a Cancer Center to Hackettstown Community Hospital’s offerings to the region.
The southern portion of the county is served by Warren Hospital, a not-for-profit institution that’s also a teaching hospital for its Family Practice Residency program. Warren Hospital emphasizes whole-patient care, and includes among its services exceptional diagnostic technologies, accredited by the College of American Pathologists, State of the Heart care, cancer services, out- and in-patient psychiatric services, and counseling and addiction services.

Warren Hospital is currently completing its own $6.2 million multi-phase renovation, with work concentrated on the South Wing, where the Vascular Laboratory and Wound Healing Center have been expanded, and are now located on the ground floor. The new Welcome Center, with a covered drop-off area for patients and visitors contains a spacious lobby, with redesigned coffee and gift shops scheduled to reopen soon. Patient registration and financial services are now located just inside the main entrance.

Other projects include the new Center for Sleep Medicine adjacent to the main campus, construction of two permanent MRI units, including an open MRI, and a new $1.7 million facility-wide heating and cooling system. Also slated for opening soon are a new off-campus outpatient facility for physical, occupational and speech/hearing therapy, as well as a cardiac rehabilitation.

The renovation will also include first-floor patient areas, including the Intensive Care Unit, One North and Telemetry, and new equipment and furnishings for all patient rooms.

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