Rutgers, New Jersey, you broke your promise | Opinion

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Rutgers, New Jersey, you broke your promise | Opinion

Rutgers and RWJ Barnabas are in a position to compound earlier broken promises by allowing the cannibalization of the hospital and its services

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[HeavenUniv.]

Give the hospital to Newark and let them do what they want with it. RWJ Barnabas has plenty of other hospitals that Rutgers Med students can use, including the upcoming use of Saint Peter’s which is merging into the system.

 

[Sir ScarletKnight]

"This agreement does not include clinical services provided by Rutgers New Jersey Medical School at University Hospital in Newark."

Is she saying that's a bad thing? This opinion piece doesn't appear to have a clear statement of what they want.

 

[sct1111]

RWJBarnabas regularly takes in bad hospitals to fix them up, i.e. Jersey City Medical Center. I think this is more complicated than "racism" as the author of the article implies. University Hospital had always been terribly managed.

 

[srru86]

She's pretty young and probably doesn't know, and certainly doesn't mention, the history that got us here.

Newark, like many big cities, had a public municipal hospital. The one in Newark, Maitland, had plenty of other private competitors in the city. The public hospital was pretty bad both medically and fiscally, serving as a hospital of last resort for the indigent. It would have closed as the City nose dived in the 1960s. The city desperately wanted the Hospital off the local budget and being supported by local tax base.

Also, Maitland was rather corrupt under the grip of the Essex County machine.

The State, driven by Essex County machine, stepped in. They striped away the nascent RU Medical School in NB grafted it onto the failing SHU Medical/Dental School in Newark and gave the resulting conglomeration, UMDNJ, the woe begotten public hospital to rescue.

1970s, 80s, & 90s- UMNDJ goes forward to be a middling medical school with a revenue suck of a hospital grafted on. Meanwhile urban hospitals across the country close, merge, consolidate. And private insured clients flee to the suburbs and their new hospitals. It happens in Newark also.

Also, UMDNJ was rather corrupt under the grip of the Essex County machine.

In the same time frame the State of NJ makes a decrease in public support for higher ed of all types. Again part of a larger trend. Same with direct public support for health care outside medicare/caid. Nobody was picking on University Hospital. Yes, they took it in the neck. So did many others.

Then Chris Christie breaks up UMDNJ giving the educational enterprise, including it's large debt (running a medical school is actually not very profitable) to RU.

If she wants to complain the State should provide more direct public funding to Newark City Hospital I'm fine with that ask - talk to Trenton.

RWJ is a partner - but RU doesn't run their hospitals.

If she wants RU to invest heavily in providing health care to Newark. No. Not our job. We should be partners and contributors, but we can't bankroll it.

The price RU has already paid was almost half a century as a stunted institution because we were denied the opportunity to be a fully integrated modern research university as we couldn't have a integral med school because very parochial interests had other ideas.

 

[T2Kplus20]

She's pretty young and probably doesn't know, and certainly doesn't mention, the history that got us here.

Newark, like many big cities, had a public municipal hospital. The one in Newark, Maitland, had plenty of other private competitors in the city. The public hospital was pretty bad both medically and fiscally, serving as a hospital of last resort for the indigent. It would have closed as the City nose dived in the 1960s. The city desperately wanted the Hospital off the local budget and being supported by local tax base.

Also, Maitland was rather corrupt under the grip of the Essex County machine.

The State, driven by Essex County machine, stepped in. They striped away the nascent RU Medical School in NB grafted it onto the failing SHU Medical/Dental School in Newark and gave the resulting conglomeration, UMDNJ, the woe begotten public hospital to rescue.

1970s, 80s, & 90s- UMNDJ goes forward to be a middling medical school with a revenue suck of a hospital grafted on. Meanwhile urban hospitals across the country close, merge, consolidate. And private insured clients flee to the suburbs and their new hospitals. It happens in Newark also.

Also, UMDNJ was rather corrupt under the grip of the Essex County machine.

In the same time frame the State of NJ makes a decrease in public support for higher ed of all types. Again part of a larger trend. Same with direct public support for health care outside medicare/caid. Nobody was picking on University Hospital. Yes, they took it in the neck. So did many others.

Then Chris Christie breaks up UMDNJ giving the educational enterprise, including it's large debt (running a medical school is actually not very profitable) to RU.

If she wants to complain the State should provide more direct public funding to Newark City Hospital I'm fine with that ask - talk to Trenton.

RWJ is a partner - but RU doesn't run their hospitals.

If she wants RU to invest heavily in providing health care to Newark. No. Not our job. We should be partners and contributors, but we can't bankroll it.

The price RU has already paid was almost half a century as a stunted institution because we were denied the opportunity to be a fully integrated modern research university as we couldn't have a integral med school because very parochial interests had other ideas.

Great post.

At the time of the break up, UMDNJ was probably the most corrupt institution in the entire state. That's quite an accomplishment for NJ!