Jersey City Medical Center

Jersey City Medical Center From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search For the former JCMC complex and historical site, see Beacon, Jersey City. For the journal, see Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Jersey City Medical Center" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Jersey City Medical Center RWJBarnabas Health Logo-jersey-city-medical-center.png JCMC south jeh.JPG The Center as seen from Jersey Avenue Wikimedia | © OpenStreetMap Geography Location 355 Grand Street, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey Organisation Type General Services Emergency department Level II Trauma Center History Opened 1882 Links Website www.barnabashealth.org/Jersey-City-Medical-Center.aspx The Jersey City Medical Center is a hospital in Jersey City, New Jersey. The hospital has had different facilities in the city. It is currently located on a 15-acre campus at Grand Street and Jersey Avenue overlooking New York Harbor and Liberty State Park. The campus includes three facilities: the Wilzig Hospital, the Provident Bank Ambulatory Center, and the Christie Kerr Women's Health Center.[1] The hospital serves as a regional referral, teaching hospital. Jersey City Medical Center is a teaching affiliate and a member of Americas Essential Hospitals. Contents 1 History 2 Current operations 3 Departments and centers 3.1 Behavioral Health Services 3.2 Fannie E. Rippel Foundation Heart Institute 3.3 Jersey City Medical Center at Greenville 3.4 The Orthopedic Institute at Jersey City Medical Center 3.5 Jersey City Emergency Medical Services 4 Hospital rating data 5 See also 6 References 7 External links History The hospital began as the "Charity Hospital" but the Board of Aldermen of Jersey City bought land at Baldwin Avenue and Montgomery Street in 1882 for a new hospital. The locale was chosen to remove the hospital from the industrial development at Paulus Hook. This building is now the Medical Center building. It was renamed the Jersey City Hospital in 1885 and had expanded to 200 beds. In 1909, the original hospital building was reserved for men and a second wing was added for women. When Frank Hague became mayor of Jersey City in 1917, he planned to expand the hospital. He had the original building renovated and constructed a new 23-story structure for surgery, known as The Orpheum. The new facility opened in 1931, and George O'Hanlon was the first director. With money from the Works Progress Administration new buildings were added during The Great Depression. The formal dedication of the Medical Center Complex, the B. S. Pollack Hospital, was on October 2, 1936, with Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicating the building. In addition to the surgery building and the maternity hospital, the campus included the nurses' residence (Murdoch Hall), hospital for chest diseases (Pollock), a psychiatric hospital, and an outpatient clinic. The Medical Center's services were free. The formal dedication of the Jersey City Medical Center Complex was on October 2, 1936, with Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicating the building. During the 1950s, JCMC was the home of the medical school of Seton Hall University the predecessor to the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry now located in Newark, NJ. The Art Deco buildings of the former JCMC complex were renovated and became The Beacon Jersey City. Jersey City Medical Center was one of the first medical centers in the United States and the first in New Jersey. Many people in Northern New Jersey still call it “The Medical Center” because of its reputation to handle all kinds of medical issues. In 1988, the Medical Center became a private, non-profit organization. In 1994, the State of New Jersey designated the Medical Center as a regional trauma center, and in the late 1990s it was approved as a core teaching affiliate of Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The hospital also has a teaching affiliation with the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, and St. George's University School of Medicine. In 2004, JCMC moved to new quarters at Grand Street and Jersey Avenue designed by Philadelphia A/E firm Ballinger and RBSD of New York. The site is near the light rail, ferries to NYC, PATH trains and the Liberty Science Center. The facility is currently operated by Barnabas Health and is the regions “state designated trauma center” and the only hospital (medical center) in Hudson County to do open heart surgery. Several additional buildings are currently being planned for the site.