 140th Anniversary Celebration Honors Ronald J. Del Mauro
Saint Barnabas Medical Center celebrated 140 years of excellence on October 29 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. The evening honored Mr. Ronald J. Del Mauro, President and CEO of SBHCS and featured music and entertainment by Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, with the Cal James Orchestra. Ronald J. Del Mauro is responsible for the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, a statewide integrated health delivery system that provides treatment and services for more than two million patients each year -- 225,000 inpatients and same day surgery patients, 440,000 Emergency Department patients, and 1.5 million outpatients, and delivers more than 17,500 babies annually.
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When a group of Newark church members decided to care for Miss Eliza Titus in 1865, it was impossible to predict the eventual implications of their commitment. Now,140 years later, Saint Barnabas Medical Center looks back with pride at a tradition of compassionate care to all, and anticipates a future filled with continuing medical breakthroughs and high-quality care.
TIMELINE OF EVENTS
 1865: New Jersey's First Hospital is Formed A dedicated group of female church members, -- known as the Ladies Society of Saint Barnabas House -- established The Hospital of Saint Barnabas in a private home. They care for their first patient, Eliza Titus, who has "no family or friends to care for her." Grateful for their kindness, Miss Titus leaves her estate to help establish the Society's first hospital in on McWhorter Street in Newark.
1869: The Hospital relocates to a large private residence on High Street, where it will remain for the next 90 years, eventually becoming a major 400-bed acute care medical center.
1894: Saint Barnabas Founds School of Nursing On March 25, 1897 the first graduating class of nurses receives diplomas from the Saint Barnabas Hospital School of Nursing, established in 1894.
1917: Maternity Pavilion is Created
To accommodate the needs of growing families, Saint Barnabas opens its first dedicated Maternity Pavilion. Over the years Saint Barnabas will provide state-of-the-art obstetrical care to tens of thousands of mothers and infants.
1937: Renovations Modernize Saint Barnabas
Ralph Lum chairs a $500,000 fundraising campaign that results in a new cancer clinic, advanced pathology laboratories, and modern fire protection devices, as well as air conditioning in the operating rooms, delivery rooms and nurseries.
1947: First National Accreditation Received for Surgical Residencies
Lyndon A. Peer, M.D., establishes Saint Barnabas as a leader in the surgical repair of congenital craniofacial 1865-2005 Saint Barnabas Celebrates 140 Years of Medical Excellence impairments. In 1951, Saint Barnabas establishes what will become the Saint Barnabas Regional Craniofacial Center.
1964: Saint Barnabas Opens its Doors in Livingston
On November 29, 1964, Saint Barnabas Medical Center officially opens with the transfer of 51 patients from the Newark facility facility and an exciting new era begins.
1967: Saint Barnabas Performs New Jersey's First Kidney Transplant
A 10-member surgical transplantation team led by Dennis Filippone, M.D, performs the state's first kidney transplant.
1969: OB/GYN Department Gains Nationwide Prominence
James L. Breen, M.D., is named chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Under his direction, the Department becomes a national leader in high-risk births and gynecologic oncology.
1977: Saint Barnabas is Designated State's Only Certified Burn Unit
The Burn Center provides a technologically advanced 12-bed intensive care unit and a specially trained 75-member burn team.
1979: Oncology Unit is Created
Saint Barnabas opens the Oncology Unit dedicated to the comprehensive care and treatment of cancer patients and their families.
1986: Ronald J. Del Mauro is Appointed President and CEO
In 1986, Ronald J. Del Mauro, president and chief executive officer of Saint Barnabas Medical Center, is also named President and Chief Executive Officer of the Saint Barnabas Corporation.
1997: Healthy Baby Born After World's First Successful Cytoplasmic Transfer
The Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of Saint Barnabas reports the birth of Emma, a healthy baby girl, born on May 9 - the first in the world to result from a new assisted reproduction procedure called cytoplasmic transfer.
1998: Saint Barnabas Ambulatory Care Center Opens
Almost 2,000 people attend the opening of the new facility, hailed as one of the nation's most sophisticated outpatient health care settings.
Saint Barnabas Performs State's First Laparoscopic Kidney Donation
The new, breakthrough minimally invasive laparoscopic kidney retrieval allows a 28-year-old organ donor to donate a kidney to a loved one and be back at work in less than two weeks.
2000: Saint Barnabas Completes $20 Million HEART HOSPITAL
Saint Barnabas announces the opening of The HEART HOSPITAL of New Jersey. This "hospital-withina- hospital" offers the most advanced cardiac care, including all cardiac-related programs from diagnostics to surgery and rehabilitation. The name is changed to Saint Barnabas Heart Centers in 2005.
The Burn Center at Saint Barnabas provides extensive care and rehabilitation to college students who are burned during a fire at Seton Hall University.
2001: Saint Barnabas Completes New Ultramodern Emergency Department
The Medical Center constructs a $5.5 million state-of-the-art Emergency Department, nearly doubling its former size and increasing capacity from 23 to 40 beds.
Burn Center Provides Specialized Care Following World Trade Center Disaster
The Burn Center of Saint Barnabas provides specialized care following the World Trade Center Disaster, admitting and treating six patients hurt in the September 11 attack and providing care for doz ens of others in the Emergency Department.
Saint Barnabas Leads the State in Childbirths
Saint Barnabas has the busiest maternity unit in the state, leading in childbirths with 7,151 babies born at the hospital in 2001.
2002: Saint Barnabas Chosen as the 13th Best Hospital in the U.S.
AARP Modern Maturity Magazine ranked Saint Barnabas as the 13th Best Hospital in the Nation and the Best Hospital in New Jersey.
2003: Smallest Baby to Survive in New Jersey is Born at Saint Barnabas Medical Center Weighing only 11 ounces, twin Tyler Martin was born at 23-weeks gestation and cared for in the hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The smallest baby to survive nationally, weighing 10 ounces, was three weeks older than the Martin baby.
The Kazmir Center for Sleep Disorders
The state-of-the-art Center offers a full range of services used in the evaluation, diagnosis and management of many sleep-related disorders and is equipped with the latest in monitoring equipment for overnight sleep studies as well as daytime testing.
Saint Barnabas is the first hospital in New Jersey to use state-ofthe- art operating technology
The two newly designed operating rooms provide surgeons with the latest modalities for performing minimally invasive surgical procedures using advanced laparoscopy, including gastric bypass, laparoscopic living related donor (organ transplant), laparoscopic colon resection, hernia repair, appendectomy and gall bladder removal.
2004: Saint Barnabas Transplant Center Performs One of New Jersey's First Stranger-to-Stranger Kidney Transplants
The kidney transplant team at the Saint Barnabas Health Care System Renal Transplant Center at Saint Barnabas Medical Center performed the center's first anonymous stranger-to-stranger living donation kidney transplant. The center also teamed with the Liberty Science Center and NJ Sharing Network to produce Live From... Kidney Transplant, which provides a live audio and video connection between operating rooms at Saint Barnabas and Liberty Science Center.
The Adult and Pediatric Comprehensive Epilepsy Centers opens a newly expanded unit
The Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery at Saint Barnabas opens a newly expanded 16-bed video-E.E.G. unit that is equipped with state-of-the-art computerized digital technology, allowing patients' seizures to be recorded for a definitive diagnosis.
2005:The New McMullen Children's Center at Saint Barnabas Medical Center Opens
The Department of Pediatrics opens its new state-of-the-art $8 million John and Jacqueline McMullen Children's Center. The new center centralizes existing pediatric services within expanded areas of the hospital and offers the latest technologies, familyfriendly lounges and lobbies, new exam and treatment rooms, a parent overnight room and sibling play areas.
Accredited Chest Pain
Center Saint Barnabas Medical Center becomes one of seven Saint Barnabas Health Care System acute care hospitals designated as an Accredited Chest Pain Center by the Society of Chest Pain Centers. There are only 151 U.S. hospitals that received accreditation.
The First in New Jersey to offer TomoTherapy
The Cancer Centers of Saint Barnabas become the first in New Jersey to offer TomoTherapy, a revolutionary new radiation treatment for cancer patients that uses 3-D imagery to measure the size, density and contours of a tumor.
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