Creation of Premier Academic Medical Center Approved

Healthcare

On Could 17, 2022

RWJBarnabas Well being (RWJBH) and Saint Peter’s Healthcare System introduced that the state of New Jersey has authorized their transaction to create New Jersey’s first premier educational medical heart (“premier AMC”) positioned in New Brunswick.

“This can be a super milestone in a years-long journey in direction of fulfilling our shared imaginative and prescient to convey transformative care to New Jersey,” mentioned RWJBarnabas Well being CEO Barry Ostrowsky. “As densely populated and traditionally rooted in biomedical analysis and innovation as New Jersey is, it’s unimaginable to me that our state has by no means had a premier educational medical heart that may unlock alternatives for medical discovery and make high-quality care extra accessible and reasonably priced for everybody. For too lengthy, New Jerseyans have endured the fee and inconvenience of touring out of state to obtain extremely specialised care, when they need to have the ability to get it proper right here at house. New Jersey residents deserve nothing much less, and we are actually only one step away from having the ability to ship on that promise.”

“We’re excited to accomplice with RWJBarnabas Well being on this first-of-its-kind endeavor as we’re collectively dedicated to offering high-quality, reasonably priced care to our sufferers and each New Jersey resident, particularly essentially the most susceptible in our communities,” Saint Peter’s Healthcare System President and CEO Leslie D. Hirsch, FACHE, mentioned. “State approval now places us on the cusp of having the ability to create New Jersey’s first multi-campus premier educational medical heart that can draw prime expertise, elevated analysis funding, and extra alternatives for groundbreaking medical trials, whereas additionally enhancing specialised companies and bettering general affected person care.

“New Jersey deserves to have a premier educational medical heart of nationwide distinction like many different states that can function a vacation spot for sufferers from all walks of life to get lifesaving remedy for advanced sicknesses and as an anchor for medical innovation, academic alternative, and financial growth.”

Establishing a premier AMC would fulfill a long-held state objective to rework educational healthcare, enhance companies and affected person entry to main and specialty care, particularly for youngsters and susceptible populations, handle historic racial disparities in well being outcomes, and supply a “vacation spot AMC” degree of medical look after residents. By finding the premier AMC in New Brunswick, it’ll additional launch Rutgers into the nation’s prime tier of medical analysis and instructing universities, entice world-class expertise and analysis funding, and permit for extra medical trials and larger innovation.

On April 26, in authorizing the transaction below New Jersey’s Neighborhood Healthcare Belongings Safety Act (“CHAPA”), Superior Courtroom Decide Lisa Vignuolo mentioned, “The applicant has met the necessities vital … [and the transaction between RWJBH and Saint Peter’s] will serve within the public curiosity and the general public good ensuing within the creation, the hopeful creation and anticipated creation, of the premier New Jersey educational medical heart which might profit the residents of this state.”

The RWJBH and Saint Peter’s transaction has acquired help from U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), New Jersey Senate President Nicholas Scutari, New Jersey Meeting Speaker Craig Coughlin, Middlesex County Fee Chair Ronald Rios, New Brunswick Mayor James Cahill, the New Jersey Enterprise & Trade Affiliation, the New Jersey Legislative Latino Caucus, New Jersey Legislative Black Caucus, African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Defend, and Aetna Higher Well being, amongst others.

Ultimate approval to create New Jersey’s first premier AMC is now pending evaluate by the Federal Commerce Fee.

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