West Orange, NJ, November 26, 2024 –RWJBarnabas Health, along with Rutgers Cancer Institute, has been named to Becker’s Hospital Overview’s 100+ Hospitals and Health Systems with Great Oncology Programs checklist for 2024, for the second consecutive 12 months. The checklist honors heath techniques which have earned nationwide recognition for his or her work in driving ahead superior most cancers care and analysis, in addition to most cancers facilities with internationally identified specialists, capability for scientific trials and distinctive security rankings.
Rutgers Most cancers Institute and RWJBarnabas Well being have remodeled most cancers care supply for New Jersey residents. Combining the analysis and remedy capabilities of Rutgers Most cancers Institute and the scientific experience of RWJBarnabas Well being, the 2 entities have ensured that each one sufferers have entry to high-quality, state-of-the-art most cancers care, near residence.
The enlargement of care will quickly happen with the opening of the state’s first freestanding most cancers hospital, the Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center in New Brunswick, N.J., scheduled to open in 2025. The Morris together with the Melchiorre Cancer Center at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center and the Cancer Center on the Vogel Medical Campus in Monmouth County will deliver collectively nationally acknowledged physicians and supply essentially the most superior most cancers therapies and compassionate take care of the communities we serve.
“This recognition demonstrates the prime quality, multidisciplinary most cancers care we offer for our sufferers and households in New Jersey and past, which is knowledgeable by progressive analysis, discoveries and scientific trials,” stated Steven K. Libutti, MD, FACS, William N. Hait Director of Rutgers Most cancers Institute and Senior Vice President, Oncology Companies, RWJBarnabas Well being. “By way of the analysis and scientific energy of the state’s solely Nationwide Most cancers Institute-designated Complete Most cancers Heart and the healthcare supply energy of the state’s largest educational well being system, we’re reworking the way in which we diagnose, stop, and deal with most cancers.
As New Jersey’s solely Nationwide Most cancers Institute (NCI)-designated Complete Most cancers Heart, Rutgers Most cancers Institute and RWJBarnabas Well being are additionally on the forefront of most cancers analysis, offering sufferers with entry to novel therapies that aren’t but accessible via customary scientific apply. The NCI designation is awarded to an elite group of facilities nationwide, illustrating the breadth and depth of excellence in management and sources on a nationwide scale. Rutgers Most cancers Institute, along with Robert Wooden Johnson College Hospital, is proud to be acknowledged by U.S. Information & World Report as a part of one of many main most cancers applications within the state and the New York Metro area, attaining Excessive Performing rankings in Most cancers and several other grownup specialties and procedures for 2024-2025.
Contact: Carrie Cristello
Carrie.Cristello@rwjbh.org
