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Powerful Partnerships Benefit New Jerseyans
Rutgers 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.
