Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) is a 781-bed

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, research and

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providing

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and healthcare needs located seven miles (11 km) west of

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, in Hackensack,

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. As of 2019, it ranks as the 2nd largest hospital in New Jersey and No. 59 in the US. HUMC is the largest hospital in the

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Health System. It is affiliated with the

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and Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. The medical center is

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, one of five in the state. In 2021 it was given a grade A by the Leapfrog

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About

As of 2021, HUMC is Bergen County's largest employer with around 9,000 employees and an annual budget of $1 billion. The hospital's staff of 1,400 physicians and dentists covers the full range of medical and dental specialties and sub-specialties. It is the largest inpatient/outpatient provider in the state, attending to more than 100,000 patients annually. HUMC is a designated Magnet Hospital, recognized for nursing excellence by the ANA. It is the first hospital in New Jersey and second in the nation to receive this recognition. HUMC has a New Jersey state-designated Children's Hospital (

Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital The Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital (JMSCH) at Hackensack University Medical Center is a pediatric acute care hospital with 105 beds. It is a designated New Jersey children's hospital and full institutional member of the National Association ...

) that is a full-voting member in the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI). It is also a member of the

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' New Jersey Council of Teaching Hospitals (NJCTH). On March 4, 2020,

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and

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announced the first confirmed

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case in New Jersey. The patient was treated at Hackensack University Medical Center. On March 6, 2020, a second case of COVID-19 was confirmed at HUMC and four days later it was announced that the patient died. Hackensack University Medical Center has a Health Awareness Regional Program and an Employee Assistance Program Development both located at 2 Sears Drive in

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. Two programs are located Westwood; the Geriatric Assessment Program and The Home Health Agency. HUMC also maintains an office for The Home Health Agency in

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. In September, 2021 hospital administration announced that they were upgraded to level 1 trauma center status by the American College of Surgeons. The hospital was previously a level 2 trauma center. Also that year, '' U.S. News & World Report''s Best Hospital Ranking listed HUMC #1 in New Jersey and #7 in New York Metro.

Facilities

Campus

HUMC's campus houses the Hackensack University Medical Plaza building, which was constructed in 1998, and opened on September 21, 1998, and is one of the largest adult ambulatory care facilities in the

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. Other campus buildings are the Jeffrey M. Creamer Trauma Center; the Dr. John Apovian Prompt Care Center; the Hekemian Conference Center; The Hillcrest Building; the George Link Jr. Pavilion, which houses the Banta Lobby, Emil Buehler Helipad, and the Samuel Toscano Sr. Surgical Suite; Johnson Hall; The Patient Pavilion; and St. John's Building. Key facilities by specialty include:

Medical arts and learning

The Alfred N. Sanzari Medical Arts Building and Learning Center

Children and pediatric

* The

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Children's House, a state-designated Regional Diagnostic Center for Child Abuse and Neglect * David Joseph Jurist Research Center for Tomorrows Children, which houses the David and Alice Jurist Institute for Research and the Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for

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/WFAN Pediatric Center for Tomorrows Children *The Sarkis Gabrellian Women's and Children's Pavilion, which houses The

*The Donna A. Sanzari Women's Hospital, and The Mark Messier Skyway for Tomorrow's Children *The Sarkis and Siran Child Care and Learning Center

Diabetes

The MOLLY Diabetes Center for Adults

Off-campus facilities

HUMC maintains offices around the perimeter of its campus as well as in downtown Hackensack. These include the Center for Trauma Recovery, the QUEST Adult Outpatient Program, Health Awareness Regional Program (HARP), the Geriatric Assessment Program, the Hospice Program, and HUMC's Home Health Agency.

Affiliations

HUMC at Pascack Valley ("HVP")

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). On October 1, 2008, it opened as

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, "a satellite emergency department to treat non-life-threatening emergencies."

Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital

The

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is a 105-bed pediatric acute care hospital connected to Hackensack University Medical Center.

HUMC at Mountainside

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(also known as HackensackUMC Mountainside), located in

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, became part of the Hackensack network when it was acquired by Hackensack and Ardent Health Services jointly in 2012 from Merit Health Systems.

The Centers at Hasbrouck Heights

The Centers at Hasbrouck Heights includes The

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Nutrition Center, established in 1986 by Dave Winfield and the Community Health Center located in a branch of the HUMC's Geriatrics Clinic. The Dave Winfield Nutrition Center has an additional location at Hackensack University Medical Center, in the Hackensack University Medical Plaza.

The Centers at Franklin Lakes

The Centers at Franklin Lakes houses HUMC's ''The Cancer Center'' and a branch of The Betty Torricelli Institute for Breast Care.

John Theurer Cancer Center

In 2011 the John Theurer Cancer Center (JTCC) at HUMC opened a $130-million, 155,000-sq. ft. facility that houses research and

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services. Areas of concentration include blood and marrow

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transplantation,

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neuro-oncology Neuro-oncology is the study of brain neoplasms, brain and Spinal neoplasms, spinal cord neoplasms, many of which are (at least eventually) very dangerous and life-threatening (astrocytoma, glioma, glioblastoma multiforme, ependymoma, pontine glio ...

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malignancy,

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, head and neck,

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, and gynecologic. In 2019 JTCC received approval from the

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(NCI) as a research consortium member of the NCI-approved Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Consortium. This consortium's focus is to advance research and treatment in breast cancer, cancer prevention and control, experimental therapeutics and molecular oncology. JTCC supports the Northeast's largest

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(BMT) program and in 2014 performed 400 transplants. In 2021, '' U.S. News & World Report''named JTCC the top-ranked cancer program in New Jersey and among the state's best in

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& GI surgery and

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''.'' As of 2021, the center is headed by Chairman Andre Goy and the Chief Innovations Officer Andrew Pecora. The JTCC is scheduled in 2022 to complete its complementary Helena Theurer Pavilion. The 530,000-square-foot facility will house 24 operating rooms, a 50-bed ICU,150 private patient rooms and a 50-bed orthopedic institute. The construction of the pavilion is currently one most comprehensive health care projects in the U.S.

Mobile Intensive Care Unit (MICU)

As of 2007, Hackensack University Medical Center provides

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coverage to 35 municipalities and operates five paramedic

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s. Four are in service 24 hours a day, seven days a week. One full-time unit is stationed a few blocks away from the main campus; another full-time unit is located in

on Paterson Avenue; two additional units are stationed at Hackensack University Medical Center North at

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; and its fifth, which is a part-time unit, is stationed in Lodi at the Volunteer Ambulance Corps during its hours of operation. A sixth unit is stationed in

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is a hybrid ALS unit and Specialty Care Transport Unit. That unit is in a specially equipped ambulance and is transport capable.

References

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