Rwj Barnabas Health Inc

Programs: Established in january 2000, following the consolidation of st. Elizabeth hospital and elizabeth general medical center, trinitas regional medical center is a full-service healthcare facility serving those in the community in need of healthcare, regardless of their ability to pay. Trinitas regional medical center is proud to offer state-of-the-art medicine backed by compassion and competence. Utilizing a full spectrum of sophisticated inpatient, outpatient and long-term care services, trinitas regional medical center is proud to have forged a lifelong partnership with families, physicians and communities to provide the best care in a supportive and caring environment. Trinitas regional medical center offers a number of centers of excellence and specialized major services, including behavioral health, bloodless medicine, cancer care, cardiology, diabetes management, maternal and child health, renal services, school of nursing, senior services, sleep disorders, women's services, wound healing and more. Trinitas regional medical center is also a catholic teaching hospital. In 2014, trinitas served nearly 15,500 inpatients, 72,400 emergency patients, 2,203 newborns and 391,000 outpatients. The trinitas family includes more than 2,700 employees, 502 physicians, and over 200 volunteers and auxilians. Inpatient services:operating on two major campuses, trinitas has 553 beds, including a 124-bed long-term care center. Trinitas provides comprehensive medical/surgical services, emergency services, senior services, adult and child/adolescent psychiatric care, cardiac care, cancer services, renal services, maternal/child health services including a high-risk newborn nursery, a wound healing center, and a sleep disorders center. Trinitas regional medical center's main service area consists primarily of the city of elizabeth, which is the fourth largest city in new jersey. Its 125,000 residents represent a broad ethnic range - in fact, roughly half of the city's residents are of hispanic descent. Additional communities served by trinitas include linden, hillside, union, roselle, roselle park, rahway, cranford, clark and colonia. The medical center's primary and secondary service areas comprise over 300,000 individuals. Trinitas is a teaching hospital, and serves as a major clinical site for the seton hall university school of graduate medical education internal medicine residency program. The accredited, three-year program is part of a rotation that includes st. Michaels medical center. A leader in nursing education, the trinitas school of nursing enrolls over 2,000 students in its full and part time programs of study. The school of nursing is part of a cooperative education program with union county college, and is currently the second largest nursing school in the nation. The inpatient capabilities of trinitas regional medical center are organized as follows:acute care 9 south nursing unit - 38 beds, mixed medical/surgical capability (geriatrics) 8 south nursing unit - 38 beds, medical/surgical with renal emphasis; telemetry monitoring available 7 south nursing unit - 38 beds, telemetry monitoring and step down 6 south nursing unit - 38 beds, medical/surgical with surgery emphasis 6 north nursing unit - 31 beds, overflow 4 north nursing unit - 23 beds, medical/surgical with oncology emphasis; telemetry monitoring available intensive care unit - 22 beds - medical/surgical/cardiac care operating rooms - 6 mixed ors, 1 cystoscopy and an ambulatory surgery center post anesthesia care unit (pacu) - 13 bayscommunity perinatal center - intermediate: 5 north - 20 beds - mother/baby well baby holding nursery - admitting nursery and holding - 20 bassinets intermediate care nursery - 7 bassinets - sick newborns, growing preemies labor/delivery - 7 labor/delivery/recovery rooms (ldrs), 2 operating rooms, 2 post anesthesia care unit (pacu) bedsrenal: 3 north nursing unit - 15 dialysis stations; peritoneal home training; pre-end stage renal disease program linden dialysis center - 15 outpatient dialysis stations new point dialysis center - 14 outpatient dialysis stationsbehavioral health & psychiatry: adult inpatient unit - 45 beds child inpatient unit - 40 beds statewide unit for developmentally disabled - 10 beds residential treatment center - 15 bedsoutpatient services:trinitas regional medical center provides a number of outpatient client-service offerings. The most notable is its trinitas comprehensive cancer care center which offers outpatient diagnostic, treatment and ancillary services in a comfortable environment. The center's multidisciplinary, holistic approach integrates medical and radiation oncology with pain management, nutrition, psychiatry, complementary medicine and other services. Other outpatient service centers include: endoscopy - 3 procedure rooms psychiatry wound care center - 3 hyperbaric chambers women's health center with diabetes management sessions pediatric health center dorothy b. Hersch residency-based medical clinictrinitas regional medical center also operates several subspecialty clinics, including: cardiology clinic renal clinic neurology clinic pain management clinic nutritional clinic surgical clinic orthopedic clinic infectious disease clinic hematology/oncology allergy clinic neurosurgical clinic ent clinic rheumatology clinic gi clinic pulmonary clinic podiatry clinic psychiatric clinicfinally, trinitas operates a 124-bed brother bonaventure extended care center that provides healthcare services to the aged and infirm. Emergency services:the trinitas regional medical center emergency department is a modern facility that has 15 acute-care beds, a six-bed observation area, a six-bed "fast track" area for patients with minor illnesses and injuries, two triage rooms and a decontamination shower facility. A designated chest pain center, the emergency department is often the front door for many patients who experience superior care through the services of our cardiology center of excellence. Many people have a perception of an emergency room with extremely long waiting times. Trinitas has put forth a major effort to dispel that notion in patients' minds. Trinitas has computerized its entire emergency services operations, and constantly monitors how long it takes a person to be seen once they arrive in the waiting area. The staff of the emergency department makes every effort to furnish timely diagnosis and treatment. It provides bedside registration, which saves time for many patients. Most lab results are transmitted within 20 minutes of testing. Trinitas has x-ray facilities in the er for faster, or immediate, response. Cooperative nursing program:the cooperative nursing program offers a diploma in nursing from trinitas school of nursing and an associate in science degree from union county college upon successful completion of the curriculum. Fully accredited by the new jersey board of nursing and the national league for nursing accrediting commission, inc. , the program offers a basic course of study in nursing. It provides a sound theoretical base of knowledge in the nursing, biological, behavioral and sociological sciences and integrates this knowledge into academic and practical experiences within the health and illness continuum of client care. Utilization of a variety of health care agencies facilitates the application of all aspects of the students' learning. Students earn a total of 75 credits in the cooperative nursing program. Upon graduation, students are eligible to sit for the national council licensing examination (nclex) for registered nurse licensure. Science and liberal arts courses (general education) may be completed at the elizabeth, plainfield, or cranford campus of union county college. Nursing courses are conducted at the elizabeth campus by the school of nursing. Students may be granted up to 22 college credits of advanced standing toward the associate degree. Students with an associate, bachelor's and/or master's degree may be eligible for the diploma option. Individuals wishing to receive transfer credit for college courses require grades of "c" or better.