About Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick
Founded in 1884, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) New Brunswick is an academic medical center whose Centers of Excellence include cardiovascular care from minimally invasive heart surgery to transplantation, cancer care, stroke care, neuroscience, orthopedics and women’s and children’s care, including The Bristol‐Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital (BMSCH).
BMSCH serves as the focal point of New Brunswick’s growing children’s health campus, which includes the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, PSE&G Children’s Specialized Hospital, and Ronald McDonald House‐New Brunswick. The free‐standing, state‐designated, acute care children’s hospital is a state‐of‐the‐art facility that is specially designed to care for children. From pediatric surgery, urology, and cardiology to oncology, hematology, and pulmonology, BMSCH’s specialists and intensivists provide advanced care for children of all ages—from fragile newborns to adolescents.
As the flagship cancer hospital of Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the principal teaching hospital of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, RWJUH New Brunswick is an innovative leader in advancing state‐of‐the‐art care. Featuring a Level 1 Trauma Center and the first Pediatric Trauma Center in the state, RWJUH’s New Brunswick campus serves as a national resource in its ground‐breaking approaches to emergency preparedness.
Our Mission
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of the patients and communities we serve by:
- Fostering an environment of excellence in all areas including the provision of the highest quality, evidence-based patient care in collaboration with the hospital's health care professionals
- Advancing patient care by the diffusion of medical knowledge
- Facilitating medical discovery that improves patient care
- Promoting and engaging in community outreach activities to enhance the health of the residents of our region
- Exhibiting stewardship of all available resources
Our Vision
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, in partnership with Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, will be a leading, nationally distinguished academic medical center.
2022 Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Virtual Public Annual Meeting
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) held its 2022 Virtual Public Annual Meeting on June 1.
During the meeting, hospital leadership shared information about hospital programs, services, facility expansion projects and community outreach initiatives.
RWJUH President and Chief Executive Officer Bill Arnold, Chief Operation Officer Alan Lee, Chief Strategy Officer Kristin Petersen, and Director of Community Health Programs Mariam Merced provided constituents with updates about several exciting projects underway on the RWJUH campus including Surgical Services, the Advanced Outpatient Center, Trauma ICU, and the Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center, as well as RWJUH’s community health impact report.
You can view the presentations here:
To learn about the hospital's standards of excellence, visit our Awards and Accreditations page.