Affiliated Institutions

RWJBarnabas Health and RBHS provide the clinical care platforms for NJ ACTS that include an operating budget of $4.5 billion, 260,000 inpatient admissions, 2 million outpatient visits, nearly 700,000 Emergency Department visits, 23,000 births, 30,000 employees, 9,000 physicians, and 1,000 residents and interns. RWJBarnabas Health, formed in 2016 as a clinical care entity, comprises 12 acute care hospitals, three children’s hospitals, a pediatric rehabilitation hospital, CINJ and affiliates, a behavioral health center, ambulatory care centers, 6 clinical research units and 120 providers in a primary care research network. Combined, RWJBarnabas Health represents one of the largest US health systems providing care for over 50% of New Jersey residents or nearly 5 million individuals. RWJBarnabas Health provides tremendous opportunity for clinical and translational research.

University Behavioral Health Care (UBHC) . The second largest academic provider of behavioral healthcare in the US, UBHC’s 15 sites throughout New Jersey provides care to 13,000 individuals in 2015, including many who are low- or no-income. The care for 4,000 individuals with a serious mental illness (i.e., schizophrenia or bipolar disorder) and the statewide suicide prevention program is also coordinated by UBHC. UBHC is the primary mental health training resource for the New Jersey Department of Human Services, Children and Families, and the Department of Corrections). A division of UBHC, University Correctional Health Care (UCHC),provides mental health, medical and dental care and sex offender-specific treatment services to the inmates, residents, and parolees of the New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC), the Juvenile Justice Commission (JJC) and the State Parole Board (SPB).

Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) is New Jersey’s only National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. CINJ embraced precision medicine approaches to provide genomic-based analysis for clinical cancer treatment and research. As a member of the Oncology Research Information Exchange Network (ORIEN), CINJ also focuses on ‘Big Data’ and information sharing that encourages use of a single clinical trial protocol known as Total Cancer Care® and Oncore®, a Clinical Trials Management System that will also be implemented in RBHS.

NJ Primary Care Research Network (PCRN) comprises one of the most robust practice-based research networks in the US that includes 300 primary care physicians managing 750,000 patients across 114 primary care practices. NJPCRN sites are located strategically statewide and provide a collaborative partnership among primary care practices and multidisciplinary teams of researchers. Over the past 5 years, NJPCRN led multi-investigator trials that recruited and followed 1,500-2,500 subjects per study for 5 years. Over 10 years, the network has served as the ‘laboratory’ for a series of observational and intervention studies, including those funded by the CDC, NIDDK, NCI, NHLBI and AHRQ.

RBHS Clinical Research Units (CRU) : The five RBHS CRUs serve as centers of recruitment and participant interaction for NJ ACTS. New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) Clinical Research Unit provides the core clinical research support team for NJMS faculty members in Newark; RWJMS Clinical Research Unit offers clinical research space and centralized support to New Brunswick-based investigators, with management and oversight for the development, implementation, coordination, and reporting of clinical trials in New Brunswick. Pediatric Clinical Research Center (PCRC) of RWJMS encourages families’ access to innovative clinical trials and novel treatments, investigators with trusted experience and an infrastructure to conduct clinical research in children less than 21 years old at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital, CINJ, PSE&G Children’s Specialized Hospital, and the School of Pharmacy. The PCRC is one of very few in the US devoted exclusively to pediatric clinical investigation. School of Dental Medicine Clinical Research Unit provides centralized facilities for investigators to conduct dental clinical research. The facility includes separate dental chair stations with x-ray capabilities and space dedicated to laboratory activities and sample processing. The Clinical Unit for Environmental and Occupational Health offers services to entities whose employees/study participants have been exposed to environmental stressors and comprises the Clinical Research Unit for the NIEHS-designated Center for Excellence in Environmental Toxicology.

New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) , a for-profit corporation of NJIT, guides health care organizations in adopting electronic health record systems and medical information exchanges. NJII established the Highlander Health Data Network, one of six HIEs in New Jersey and serves the HIEs as the aggregator of HIE data. As a Practice Transformation Network, NJII supports 11,500 clinicians to expand their quality improvement capacity, learn from one another, and achieve common goals of improved care and better health at a reduced cost.

Jersey Health Connect (JHC)is New Jersey’s largest HIE and connects a wide-array of healthcare stakeholders including physicians, medical offices, more than 30 hospitals and health systems, and over 140 long-term care facilities. JHC portals provide 430,000 online patient connections, 7.3 million patient records, and 4.9 million clinical transactions monthly. JHC covers roughly 75% of the NJ healthcare market with almost 7.3 million patients: 789,000 are from RBHS. Data exchanged across the network is standardized and provides real time data access.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey , the state’s oldest and largest health insurer, is a service corporation providing a wide array of medical, dental, and prescription insurance products. Horizon BCBSNJ serves 3.7 million members with headquarters in Newark. Horizon NJ Health, New Jersey’s largest Medicaid and NJFamilyCare managed healthcare organization, provides health services for 574,000 people in all New Jersey counties.

New Brunswick Tomorrow (NBT) is a non-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of New Brunswick’s people by fostering public and private networks of institutions and community organizations. New Brunswick Tomorrow identifies critical community needs and responds to those needs. It serves as a catalyst in developing and supporting solutions that improve the quality of life in our community. It works with partners in the city’s public/private revitalization, assuring that health, human service and social issues are addressed that complement the physical and cultural revival of New Brunswick.