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Saint Barnabas Medical Center Celebrates Opening of
Construction for the new Institute reflects a one-year expansion and renovation project that has helped to create a 16,700-square-foot facility with areas dedicated to Pediatric Nephrology and Transplantation, Transplant Research, Pre-Transplant Services, as well as a Post-Transplant Clinic. The Institute also features a unique Observation Unit that allows close monitoring of post-transplant patients on an outpatient basis. Comfortable waiting areas, additional examination rooms, a laboratory and conference room enhance patient comfort and create an optimal working atmosphere for the Saint Barnabas Renal Transplant Team. The Saint Barnabas Health Care System Renal Transplant Centers, located at both Saint Barnabas Medical Center and Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, are a hallmark of excellence in the transplantation field. In part, this recognition has been earned by performing the sixth largest number of transplants in the nation, more transplants than any medical center in the state as well as New York, Philadelphia or Boston. The Renal Transplant Centers offer a wealth of services that includes transplantation for infants through older adults and more research into improved immunosuppressive drugs than any other program in New Jersey. The Centers are credited with several "transplantation firsts" in the state, including the first laparoscopic kidney retrieval which paved the way for increased living donation, kidney transplantation on the youngest baby in New Jersey, and the first pancreas after kidney transplant. Creating a Lasting Legacy The new Transplant Institute is named for Martin G. Jacobs, M.D., Director of Outpatient Transplant Services at Saint Barnabas Medical Center. The vision for this facility evolved more than 30 years ago when Dr. Jacobs and a group of other nephrologists and surgeons at Saint Barnabas and Newark Beth Israel Medical Centers undertook the challenge of bringing renal transplantation services to New Jersey. In the early 1960s, these physicians researched the experimental transplants that had taken place to date and sought the expertise of physicians at major academic medical centers around the world. Due to their commitment to patients with End Stage Renal Disease, the first kidney transplant was performed in New Jersey in 1967 at Saint Barnabas. This was the beginning of a medical program that would go on to perform more than 2,000 other transplants between 1967 and 2001. It has also achieved a 90 percent success rate, among the highest in the nation. The Martin G. Jacobs, M.D., Transplant Institute involved both renovation and expansion construction. The yearlong project cost approximately $2.7 million. Generous donations by area foundations and professional and personal friends of Dr. Jacobs and his wife, Barbara, helped significantly to make the vision for a new Transplant Institute a reality. For more information about the Martin G. Jacobs, M.D., Transplant Institute, please call the Renal Transplant Centers at [ top ] |
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Saint Barnabas celebrated the opening of The Martin G. Jacobs, M.D., Transplant Institute in April 2001. The new Transplant Institute is a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to providing treatment and follow-up care for patients with End Stage Renal Disease as well as type 1 diabetes in conjunction with renal failure.
