a closer look at a new health care venture
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Creating NJ’s Premier Academic Health System
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utgers and RWJBarnabas Health are joining forces to create the state’s largest academic health care system dedicated to providing the highest quality patient care, leading-edge research and world-class education to improve the lives of New Jerseyans. This partnership aligns RWJBarnabas Health, New Jersey’s largest health care system; Rutgers; and Rutgers Health Group, a faculty practice of some 1,000 physicians, dentists, psychologists, nurses, pharmacists and other professionals. The alliance will create a multi-specialty group comprised of more than 2,500 practitioners— one of the largest medical groups in the country. The exciting venture will enhance the delivery and accessibility of clinical services across the state, boost the recruitment of outstanding faculty, and advance health science innovation and education. Patients throughout New Jersey will benefit from increased access to providers offering medical and dental care as well as behavioral
health and addiction services. Eventually they will have access to newly developed centers of excellence offering groundbreaking clinical innovation, and to clinicians who are leaders in their fields. Through the partnership’s unique structure, RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers will remain separate corporations. Rutgers faculty will remain Rutgers faculty and Rutgers will provide clinical services to RWJBarnabas Health through Rutgers Health Group. Rutgers and RWJBarnabas Health are recruiting leading academic, research and clinical practitioners, with a shared goal of developing centers of excellence; investing in clinical, academic and research innovations; educating health professionals; and improving health through coordinated patient outreach, prevention and treatment of disease. “Our new alliance will better enable us to educate the next generation of health care professionals and offer the top-tier health education and training necessary to provide health care in an ever-changing environment, developing one of the best academic health systems in the country,” said Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Chancellor Brian Strom, MD.
‘Dream Team’ to Provide Comprehensive Care
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JMS has teamed up with Bergen County mental health care provider Care Plus NJ and Integrity, Inc., to oversee the management and operations of Bergen County Regional Medical Center, a 1,000bed facility providing acute care, behavioral health, long-term care and other services. The new entity, named Care Plus Bergen, further expands NJMS’s clinical reach. The three partners, all standouts in their respective fields, have collaborated through the years. They share a vision for management of the hospital, which has traditionally served as a safety net for those requiring mental health or substance abuse treatment. While the hospital’s core mission—treating people with mental health and substance abuse problems—will remain, the new leadership plans to extend addiction treatment and offer enhanced medical services. NJMS’s role in the partnership is to provide acute care and clinical leadership, as well as support the growth and expansion of ambulatory services. Care Plus NJ will assume oversight for behavioral health services. Integrity, the state’s largest substance abuse treatment and recovery agency, will manage substance abuse services, including inpatient detox, residential and outpatient care. An important aspect of the plan is the integration of medical and mental health care and enhanced support services for patients after they are discharged. To increase the availability of specialists in inpatient services, CarePlus Bergen expects to add approximately 50 new physicians to the medical staff over the next three years. The vision is to provide a medical home of specialty care services for residents of Bergen County and northern New Jersey, treating patients across the entire continuum of care to keep people well at home. ●
RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL
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