Pediatric Trauma Center
When it comes to caring for seriously injured children, RWJBarnabas Health’s Pediatric Trauma Center offers elite services that achieve the highest national standard for pediatric trauma care. Sophisticated services of pediatric surgeons from all specialties are available at a moment’s notice to perform surgery on critically ill patients. We provide comprehensive care for patients with severe, life-threatening injuries around the clock.
A Level I Pediatric Trauma Center
Our Pediatric Trauma Center, located at The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, is verified as a Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS COT). It is the only state-designated Adult Trauma Center in New Jersey to have an ACS COT Level I Pediatric Trauma Program.
This designation demonstrates our commitment to delivering a program that guides children and families through the entire continuum of trauma care. This includes first response in the field – even before a child reaches the hospital – as well as pediatric trauma resuscitation, critical care, and recovery, with exceptional pediatric rehabilitation therapy at Children’s Specialized Hospital.
What Makes Our Program Special
Some of the highlights of our Pediatric Trauma Program are:
- State-of-the-art trauma resuscitation bays with a stand-alone Pediatric Emergency Department staffed by highly skilled physicians, nurses, social workers and physical therapists that specialize in advanced pediatric trauma and emergency care
- Broad range of dedicated pediatric specialties available to pediatric trauma patients including anesthesia, neurosurgery, orthopedics, radiology/interventional radiology, pediatric intensivists, rehabilitation medicine and Child Life
- Multidisciplinary, specialized and sensitive approach to non-accidental trauma
- Award-winning Injury Prevention Program focused on keeping New Jersey’s children safe
- A Hospital Violence Intervention Program that helps trauma patients who have been injured due to community violence recover from physical and emotional trauma by empowering them with skills, resources and opportunities for positive change
- The largest Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in New Jersey, staffed by fellowship-trained pediatric intensivists 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- State-of-the-art Center for Advanced Pediatric Surgery with dedicated pediatric operating rooms and pediatric peri-operative nursing teams
