Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset

RWJUH Somerset
RWJ University Hospital Somerset
Map
Geography
LocationSomerville, New Jersey, United States
Coordinates40°34′05″N 74°35′42″W / 40.5681°N 74.5950°W / 40.5681; -74.5950
Organization
FundingNon-profit hospital
TypeRegional hospital
Affiliated universityRobert Wood Johnson Medical School
Services
StandardsAmerican Hospital Association, Joint Commission
Emergency departmentLevel III trauma center
Beds355
History
Opened1901
Links
Websitewww.rwjbh.org/rwj-university-hospital-somerset/
ListsHospitals in New Jersey

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset, located in Somerville, New Jersey, is a nationally accredited, 355-bed regional medical center providing a variety of comprehensive emergency, medical/surgical and rehabilitative services to Central New Jersey residents.

RWJUH-Somerset is a major clinical affiliate of the Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS). The medical center operates a family medicine residency program and hosts residents from RWJMS specializing in obstetrics/gynecology, psychiatry and other specialties. Somerset Medical center's 650-member medical and dental staff represents all major medical and surgical specialties and has one of the highest percentages of board-certified doctors in New Jersey. The medical center ranks in the top 20 percent of hospitals in New Jersey in the number of cardiac procedures performed.

The medical center is fully accredited by the Joint Commission and is a member of the American Hospital Association, New Jersey Hospital Association and the New Jersey Council of Teaching Hospitals. It is a clinical research affiliate of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey. The medical center is licensed by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. Somerset Medical Center recently completed the largest facility expansion project in its history, which includes a new emergency department, new inpatient oncology and surgical pavilions and expanded surgical suites.

The $25 million Steeplechase Cancer Center, which opened in January 2007, brings together all outpatient cancer services in one location in Somerset County for the first time.[1] Since the 1950s, race proceeds of those attending the Far Hills Races have gone to fund the Steeplechase Cancer Center at Somerset Medical Center, raising more than $17 million through 2007.[2]

Steeplechase Cancer Center
  1. ^ "Somerset Medical Center". Somerset Medical Center.
  2. ^ "About the Races, Far Hills Race Meeting". Far Hills Race. Retrieved September 3, 2008.