Facts & Firsts

1997: A healthy baby is born at Saint Barnabas Medical Center after the world’s first successful cytoplasmic transfer.

2004: Expanded and renovated First Moment’s Maternity unit, featuring all private rooms with jacuzzis, opens at Community Medical Center, the only unit of its type in the region.

2006: Saint Barnabas Medical Center delivers more babies than any other hospital in New Jersey for the fifteenth consecutive year.

2006: Kimball Medical Center receives the 1st Annual Doris Haire Award recognizing the best maternity practices in NJ based on the lowest Caesarean rate in the state and one of the lowest in the nation.

2006: System reaches milestone, delivering 178,736 babies in the last 10 years, equivalent to two percent of New Jersey’s current population.

2006: Saint Barnabas Medical Center delivers more than 7,000 infants, more than any other hospital in the state.

2006: The Saint Barnabas Breast Center is the only center in the metropolitan area performing 55,000 mammographies and breast procedures annually.

2007: Twin baby girls born using a revolutionary new egg freezing technique developed by the team at the Institute of Reproductive Medicine and Science (IRMS) at Saint Barnabas.

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