Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, New Jersey was established in 1892. It is part of the Atlantic Health System. With approximately 6,000 employees, it is Morristown's largest employer. In a ruling issued in June 2015, Tax Court Judge Vito Bianco ruled that the hospital would be required to pay property taxes on nearly all of its campus.
About
Part of Atlantic Health System, Morristown Medical Center's specialties include cardiology and cardiac surgery, adult and pediatric oncology, orthopedics, critical and emergency care, inpatient rehabilitation, and neonatal intensive care services. Morristown Medical Center is also a Level I Trauma Center and a Level III Regional Perinatal Center. Morristown Medical Center is the official hospital of the New York Jets football team. The Atlantic Health Jets Training Center in Florham Park, NJ, is the corporate headquarters for the team franchise. The campus includes a 120,000-square-foot structure to house indoor training facilities and classrooms; and an 86,000-square-foot field house where Jets players practice on a full-size, indoor, artificial-turf field. Atlantic Health System's other New Jersey locations include Overlook Medical Center in Summit, Newton Medical Center in Newton, Chilton Medical Center in Pompton Plains, and the Goryeb Children's Hospital in Morristown. Atlantic Health System is the primary academic and clinical affiliate in New Jersey of Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Mount Sinai Health System.
History
In 1889, Myra Brookfield bequeathed her home and property for the purpose of establishing a hospital. She stipulated that the community-at-large raise $15,000 to buy equipment and hire staff within three years of her death. In 1893, the house was too small for the hospital, so it was sold and the profits were put toward the purchase of a bigger facility – a former parsonage in downtown Morristown, used as a makeshift hospital by George Washington more than 100 years earlier. Morristown Memorial Hospital opened its doors on October 17, 1893. Early on, the hospital established an isolation unit for patients with contagious diseases. As large-scale epidemics were a fact of life in 19th-century America, that ward helped to slow or prevent the spread of dangerous diseases in the community. In 1898 a new building for the hospital was donated by George Goelet Kip, named the Anna Margaret Home for Convalescents in honor of his late wife. By the turn of the century, Morristown Memorial had an operating room, X-ray equipment, a pathology lab and an outpatient clinic. The hospital hired Jennie A. Dean, its first female doctor, to run the pathology lab in 1913, a full seven years before American women had the right to vote. Her sister, Elvira Dean, was hired to run the X-ray department.
1921 – The Outpatient Department opened its doors, a precursor to today's Emergency Department.
1938 – The hospital established a tumor section to study and treat cancer; that same year, radium therapy was introduced.
1952 – Morristown Memorial moved into a new facility on Madison Avenue. In the 1960s, the hospital doubled in size.
1996 – Overlook and Morristown Memorial hospitals joined forces as Atlantic Health.
2002 – Goryeb Children's Hospital opened adjacent to the Morristown Memorial Hospital campus.
2008 – Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute opened.
2009 – Morristown Memorial Hospital changed its name to Morristown Medical Center, part of Atlantic Health System.
Statistics
As of 2018, Morristown Medical Center had:
6,153 employees
2,253 physicians/providers
207 medical residents
693 licensed beds
39,383 admissions
4,494 births
98,796 emergency visits
567,469 outpatient visits
Goryeb Children's Hospital
is a children's hospital attached directly to Morristown Medical Center and provides pediatric care from infancy to age 21. The hospital has a wide range of pediatric specialties and subspecialties. In 2019 a new expanded Pediatric Intensive Care Unit with 15 beds opened to increase the amount of pediatric critical cases the hospital could handle. The hospital also boasts a 34-bed Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit dedicated to the care ofnewborns. The PICU and the NICU are directly attached to several Ronald McDonald House sleeping rooms for parents and siblings.
Services
Services that are offered at Goryeb Children's Hospital include: Adolescent Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, General Pediatrics, Neonatology, Pediatric Allergies & Immunology, Pediatric Behavioral Health, Pediatric Brain Tumors, Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatric Craniofacial Services, Pediatric Critical Care, Pediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Pediatric Genetics, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Pediatric Nephrology, Pediatric Neurology, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Pediatric Orthopedics, Pediatric Palliative Care, Pediatric Physiatry, Pediatric Physical Rehabilitation, Pediatric Pulmonology, Pediatric Rheumatology, Pediatric Surgery, and Pediatric Urology.
Notable deaths
The following list is arranged chronologically, based on date of death:
