About Newark Beth Israel Medical Center

Founded in 1901, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center is the only medical facility in the state where heart, lung and kidney transplants are performed. The Medical Center provides comprehensive health-care services to its local communities and is a major referral and treatment center for patients throughout the northern New Jersey metropolitan area. 

The Medical Center is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the American Osteopathic Association.  The Beth provides services to approximately 30,000 inpatients and same day surgery patients; 66,000 emergency room visits; 260,000 outpatient visits; and 2,900 births each year. There are over 800 active physicians on staff.

In addition to heart, lung and kidney transplantation, the medical center is home to Children's Hospital of New Jersey, The Saint Barnabas Cardiac Centers, and the N.J. Poison Information and Education System hotline; the state's first accredited Sleep Disorders Center; one of the largest electrophysiology programs in New Jersey; a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; the largest hospital-based dental program in New Jersey; and major cardiology and cardiac surgery programs. The Medical Center also offers on-site MRI; the nationally recognized Pacemaker Center; the Center for Adults with Congenital Heart Disease; bone marrow transplantation; The Flo Okin Oncology and Blood Disorders Center; the Comprehensive Hemophilia Center;  The Valerie Fund Children's Center; the Center for Geriatric Health Care; and a Regional Perinatal Center.

Newark Beth Israel's primary care population includes patients from Newark and local environs of Irvington, Hillside, Elizabeth, the Oranges, and other nearby communities. Approximately half of our patients are suburban residents who come to this medical center for its tertiary subspecialty services (cardiology, oncology, nephrology, etc.).

The patient population comes from a broad socio-economic spectrum that enriches the training experience of the house staff.

The Department of Medicine occupies approximately 200 beds of which half are general medical beds. There are dedicated units for Nephrology, Geriatrics, Hematology/Oncology, and Cardiac Telemetry. In addition, the Department includes a 19-bed Medical Intensive Care Unit and a 24-bed Coronary Care Unit. Throughout the three years, residents will have the opportunity to work directly with an extremely diverse group of attending physicians including full-time and volunteer physicians, generalists and sub-specialists, physicians with urban practices and physicians with suburban practices.

Graduate medical education is a priority at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, with residencies in medicine, surgery, pediatrics, radiology, obstetrics/gynecology, pathology and emergency medicine.