About Us

• Hackensack University Medical Center has an approved licensed bed capacity of 629 and is a regional-care teaching hospital that serves as the center of healthcare in Northern New Jersey. The medical center provides the largest number of admissions of any hospital in the state.
  
  
• Hackensack University Medical Center has an annual operating revenue of more than $545 million and is Bergen County's largest employer with more than 6,000 on staff.
  
  
• Hackensack University Medical Center is a New Jersey state-designated New Jersey Children's Hospital. The medical center is also a full-voting member of the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI).
  
  
• Dedicated in May of 2000, the David Joseph Jurist Research Center for Tomorrows Children is a five-story, 55,000-square foot, state-of-the-art research facility. The building houses the Institute for Biomedical Research and consolidates all of the medical center's ongoing research activities into one location. The medical center is involved in nearly 500 clinical protocols, including trials with pharmaceutical companies, the National Cancer Institute, and co-operative protocols.
  
  
• Hackensack University Medical Center, the only state-designated Trauma Center in Bergen County, is the first hospital in the area to offer bloodless surgery to its cardiac patients. The medical center is staffed and equipped 24 hours a day, seven days a week to receive patients with major and life-threatening injuries.
  
  
• The Heart Center at Hackensack University Medical Center - includes both non-invasive and invasive programs - offering a full range of state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment services and is a New Jersey state-designated regional referral center for cardiac catherization, cardiac surgery, and electrophysiology studies. The New Jersey State Department of Health and Human Services reports that Hackensack University Medical Center has the best risk-adjusted survival rates for coronary artery bypass surgery in Bergen and Passaic counties in the third annual report card.
  
  
• One of the largest and most comprehensive programs in New Jersey for children with cancer and blood disorders, The Tomorrows Children's Institute for Cancer and Blood Disorders, is located in the DON IMUS-WFAN Pediatric Center for Tomorrows Children at the medical center.
  
  
• The medical center is home to the Toys "R" Us/Kids "R" Us Institute for Childhood Development (ICD), an internationally recognized evaluation and treatment center for children and adolescents with developmental and behavioral disorders. It too, is located in the DON IMUS/WFAN Pediatric Center for Tomorrows Children.
  
  
• Hackensack University Medical Center's AIDS Outreach program people with AIDS funds for primary medical care, including specialized medicines, outpatient programs, community, and professional education, research studies, and other supportive services.
  
  
• The Sarkis and Siran Gabrellian Child Care and Learning Center at Hackensack University Medical Center is a 30,000 square-foot facility that provides day care for up to 370 children ages 3 months to 6 years.--More Information--
  
  
• Hackensack University Medical Center has the only bone marrow transplant program - a treatment for patients with certain leukemias and cancers that are not curable by either chemotherapy or radiotherapy - in Bergen and Hudson counties. The medical center performs more bone marrow transplants than any other hospital in the state.
  
  
• Since 1999 Hackensack University Medical Center has been designated as an official kidney transplant center and was the first hospital in Bergen, Passaic, and Hudson counties to receive this designation.
  
  
• There are more than 1,000 physicians and dentists on staff, representing many different medical specialties. The hospital educates more than 250 students and 100 resident physicians each year.
  
  
• As the largest provider of inpatient and outpatient services in the state, Hackensack University Medical Center admitted more than 60,000 patients during 1999.
  
  
• Hackensack University Medical Center is the first hospital in the country, after the pilot program, to receive Magnet Recognition for Nursing Excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center; and the second in the country to receive a four-year redesignation of this prestigious award.
  
  
• Volunteers at the medical center which totaled 1,993 in 1999 performed 194,410 hours of service. Their slogan is "Volunteers are the heart of Hackensack University Medical Center."
  
  
• The Clinical Virology Laboratory identified and characterized 484 distinct isolates last year. Hackensack University Medical Center was also the first hospital in New Jersey to identify the start of the flu season in 1999.
  
  
• As one of only three medical centers in the nation to have the most advanced radiation technology available today to treat prostate cancer, we offer BAT (B-mode Acquisition Targeting) ultrasound-supported intensity modulated radiation therapy.
  
  
• The medical center is a major affiliate of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey/NJ Medical School and a member of the University Health System of New Jersey.
  
  
• The medical center is the recipient of the Consumer Choice Award in Bergen and Passaic counties for four years in a row. Based on a survey of 400,000 people to determine the best hospitals in the country, the medical center was named as the hospital of choice for quality of staff, community programs, personalized care, and overall reputation. Hackensack University Medical Center also received the Consumer Choice Award distinction for cardiac services in Bergen and Passaic counties.