http://www.rwjuh.edu/news Health and Hospital News From Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, located in New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08903 60 2008-06-04 15:20:52 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/images/news/logo_rss.gif http://www.rwjuh.edu Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital 35 150 en-us http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/bedwetting_study.html Researchers at The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital (BMSCH) at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School have completed a study that establishes for the first time a link between obstructive sleep apnea and an increased risk for obesity and bedwetting in children. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ 2008-06-04 15:20:52 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/cardiac_surgery_program_news.html As a former marathon runner, Readington resident Bob Kloss knows a little about facing challenges and succeeding against the odds. But nothing could have prepared him for the catastrophic heart ailment that nearly took his life 20 years ago.Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ 2008-05-20 18:53:58 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/healthcare_decisions_day.html Although hospital staff routinely informs patients about their options regarding advance directives and living wills as required by law, only a small minority of individuals actually execute an advance directive. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ 2008-05-09 16:40:31 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/news_brachytherapy.html Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital now offers radioactive seed implant therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer as part of its comprehensive range of cancer treatment services. Radioactive seed implantation, also known as prostate brachytherapy, provides an effective treatment for men with localized prostate cancer. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ 2008-05-22 12:29:26 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/sirt-spheres-news.html Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital now offers a breakthrough liver tumor therapy called selective internal radiation therapy, or SIRT, for the treatment of colorectal cancer that has spread to the liver. The SIRT treatment is offered by very few doctors and hospitals and only one doctor and hospital in New Jersey: Dr. John Nosher and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ 2008-05-20 14:20:40 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/judith_burgis.html Paul J. Hirsch, MD, Chairman of the Edward J. Ill Excellence in Medicine Association, announced that Judith Burgis of Matawan, NJ, will receive an Outstanding Medical Executive Award. The award will be presented at the Edward J. Ill Excellence in Medicine Awards™ ceremony on May 7 at the Hyatt Regency Princeton. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ 2008-05-20 19:06:45 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/childrenshospital_dedication.html The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School today dedicated the last of three centers of excellence in the treatment of childhood diseases – The Bristol-Myers Squibb Pediatric Infectious Disease and Immunology Center. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ 2008-05-20 19:37:52 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/news_toyrun.html Approximately 100 members of a local motorcycle club brought toys and cheer to patients at The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital today. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ 2008-05-22 12:45:49 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/bmsch_palliativecare.html Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ 2008-05-20 19:55:14 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/stephen-k-jones.html Citing the tremendous momentum under his interim leadership of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Chairman of the Board of Directors Gil Blitz announced to the RWJUH Medical Board on Thursday night that Stephen K. Jones, FACHE, has been selected as the new President and CEO of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Robert Wood Johnson Health System, ending a six-month national search. 2007-09-06 20:20:46 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/advanced-cancer-care-080907.html Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital will receive increased federal funding for cancer care if legislation passed by the House is signed into law, announced the bill’s sponsor, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) at a hospital press conference today. 2007-08-09 17:26:18 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/paired-kidney-transplant-news.html Channel 2 News – WCBS New York featured Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and its patients in a story about paired kidney donation. Dr. David Laskow was interviewed as the surgeon who performed one of two simultaneous living donation kidney transplant surgeries – one was done here at RWJUH and the other one was done at the same time at the University of Toledo Medical Center in Ohio. 2007-08-01 14:45:54 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/us-news-best-hospitals.html Out of more than 5400 hospitals across America, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital was ranked in the top 30 for heart care according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2007 ranking of America’s Best Hospitals. At number 26 in the nation, this ranking is the best of any hospital in New Jersey on the U.S. News & World Report list. 2007-07-13 19:50:26 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/top-100-hospitals-032007.html New Brunswick, NJ – Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital has received the 2006 Solucient 100 Top Hospitals®: National Benchmarks for Success Award and is listed among the nation’s top 15 major teaching hospitals. The only hospital in New Jersey or New York to be included on the list of the nation’s Top 100 Hospitals, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital was selected based on performance in four areas: quality, finances, operations and growth. 2007-03-20 17:56:31 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/itn-weekend-heart-attack.html Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital were featured in recent national and state news reports about an imporant New England Journal of Medicine study on heart attacks published on March 15, 2007. The study was authored by leading physicians at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and concluded that heart attack patients do not receive the same level of care during the weekend. 2007-03-19 14:19:59 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/cancer-approval-1220.html Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital joins the list of the nation’s best ranked cancer centers by the American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer after having earned its highest cancer care performance rating, “Approval with Commendation,” following a stringent on-site performance evaluation conducted in early August. 2006-12-20 17:53:41 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/peds-asd-repair.html On Tuesday, December 12, at 1:00 PM EST The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital will host a live panel discussing the repair of an atrial septal defect for treating children born with congenital heart defects. During the webcast a pediatric cardiac catheterization procedure will be featured. 2006-12-11 17:31:25 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/dr_lacy_1206.html Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Health System President and CEO Clifton R. Lacy, M.D., today announced that he will leave the hospital and health system leadership to focus full time on developing and directing a new Institute for Disaster and Terror Medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. 2006-12-08 16:40:59 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/leapfrog.html Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital is one of the nation’s Top Hospitals for quality and safety, according to a survey conducted by the Leapfrog Group. Only 50 acute-care hospitals in the country, and three in New Jersey, were named to the Leapfrog Group’s first Top Hospitals list. 2006-10-20 18:24:41 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/artificial_heart_alert.html Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital will be one of the few hospitals in the nation to offer the first fully-implantable artificial heart. A conference call for news media has been scheduled for 3 p.m. today, Wednesday, September 6, 2006, with Mark Anderson, MD, the hospital’s chief of the Section of Cardiac Surgery and an associate professor of surgery at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. 2006-09-06 16:33:31 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/trauma_rv.html The Level 1 Trauma Center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital has been re-verified as a Level 1 trauma center for both pediatric and adult care by the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons. 2006-08-30 16:01:16 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/arts_camp.html “Artists Mentoring Against Racism, Drugs and Violence: Healing Through the Arts,” a five-week summer arts camp that explores the issues facing today’s youth, concluded Friday, August 11, with a series of student-created exhibits on display at the Mason Gross School of the Arts gallery, located at 33 Livingston Avenue. The camp celebrated its 10th anniversary with this summer’s program. 2006-08-30 16:04:30 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/rpc_quality.html Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital's Regional Perinatal Center has been selected as a 2006 Regional Program of Quality by Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. RWJUH is one of 13 hospitals to be recognized for its services to mothers and newborns. 2006-08-30 15:56:25 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/heart_failure_device.html Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital is one of seven hospitals in the United States and the only hospital in New Jersey selected to participate in a study of new, minimally-invasive technology used to assist the pumping function of weakened or failing hearts. 2006-07-11 19:48:00 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/breastfeeding_bedwetting.html Babies who are breastfed for longer than three months are less likely to exhibit bed-wetting during childhood, according to a new study by researchers at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital's children's hospital and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. 2006-07-06 12:58:27 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/gursky_6-30.html Barbara Gursky, MA, CCLS, director of the Child Life Program at The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, has been elected president of the Child Life Council, the international organization for child life professionals. 2006-07-06 14:12:26 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/nursing_camp_06.html Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital recently held its first nursing camp for high school students, providing the opportunity for them to hear from current nursing students and RWJUH staff nurses, as well as learn about the variety of nursing specialties available. 2006-07-06 14:16:09 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/abiomed_coe.html ABIOMED, a leading developer and manufacturer of medical products that assist the pumping function of failing hearts, has selected Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick as a "Center of Excellence" for its cardiac program. 2006-06-13 20:32:11 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/hip_replacement.html Dr. David Harwood, an attending orthopedic surgeon at RWJUH and an associate professor of Surgery at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, is one of approximately 50 surgeons in the U.S. offering the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR) System, a bone-conserving alternative to total hip replacement surgery approved May 9 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in this country. 2006-05-30 15:51:04 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/powerful_physician_execs.html A national health care magazine has again included Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital President and CEO Clifton R. Lacy, MD, on its annual ranking of the nation's 50 most powerful physician executives. 2006-05-04 19:01:09 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/gil_blitz.html Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital has named Montgomery Township resident Gil Blitz as its new board chairman. Mr. Blitz, a senior vice president with UBS Financial Services, was elected to a three-year term at the hospital's annual meeting on May 3. 2006-05-04 18:57:01 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/bmsch_gift.html Taking another step forward in the fight against childhood obesity, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and its Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital today announced the receipt of a $5 million gift from Bristol-Myers Squibb that will be used in part to address the growing problem. 2006-04-10 17:33:33 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/quality_of_care.html Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital ranks among the best hospitals in the nation in a study of quality of care that assessed treatment of heart attack, congestive heart failure and pneumonia. 2006-04-10 17:27:53 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/poison_safety_tips.html More than one million children ages 5 and under are accidentally poisoned each year, and 90 percent of accidental poisonings happen in the home. In addition, 40 percent of accidental poisonings of children ages 5 and under are from prescription drugs and other medications. 2006-03-17 17:50:41 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/patrick_swayze_dance.html More than 500 women and men, including Golden Globe nominated actor Patrick Swayze, attended Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital's third annual Day of Dance for Women's Heart Health, an event that shows women they could stick to an exercise program if they like the exercise they're doing. 2006-03-15 20:02:43 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/nicu_fundraiser_031406.html A fundraiser to benefit the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (BMSCH) will be held Sunday, April 2, from 12:30 to 4:00 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick. 2006-03-14 17:23:33 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/keeping_baby_safe_031406.html The Level One Trauma Center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Safe Kids Middlesex County, in partnership with the hospital's Community Education Department, is beginning a new series of baby safety programs for parents and caregivers this month. Covered topics include shaken baby syndrome, car seat safety and home safety. 2006-03-14 17:15:08 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/excellence_march_of_dimes.html Two Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital nurses have been honored for clinical excellence with Maternal Child Health Nurse Reality Awards from the March of Dimes New Jersey Chapter. 2006-03-14 17:20:21 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/dod_022506.html More than 500 people filled Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital's courtyard today for health screenings, professional dance demonstrations, healthy heart education and special guests including actor Patrick Swayze at the hospital's annual "Day of Dance for Heart Health." 2006-03-14 17:35:06 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/peds_chd_022106.html Each year, approximately 40,000 babies in the United States are born with Congenital Heart Defects (CHD), or abnormal heart conditions that develop sometime during early pregnancy. CHDs are the most common birth defect. Many are detected at birth, but some are not found until early childhood or even adolescence. 2006-03-14 17:07:58 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/press_ganey_2-3-06.html Patients rated Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital's nursing care and food among the top two percent in the nation, according to Press Ganey, a company that measures and reports hospital patient satisfaction. 2006-02-06 15:18:41 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/magnet_2-2-06.html Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital yesterday received re-designation as a Magnet hospital from the American Nurses Credentialing Center and today is one of only four facilities in the country to receive this designation three times. 2006-02-02 19:40:21 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/stroke_center_recognition.html In a move acknowledging the exceptionally high quality of stroke care at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the nation's major hospital accrediting agency has certified RWJUH as a Primary Stroke Center and awarded the hospital's stroke program its Gold Seal of Approval. 2006-01-24 18:55:44 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/min_invasive_child_heart_defects.html Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, a leading cardiac care hospital in New Jersey, repaired heart defects in two children using state-of-the-art, minimally-invasive techniques. 2006-01-09 13:26:39 EDT http://www.rwjuh.edu/news/wimalawansa_award.html Physician and researcher Sunil Wimalawansa won a lifetime achievement award from the Sri Lanka Foundation, the Los Angeles-based international organization's highest honor for the Sri Lankan community. 2006-01-09 15:43:19 EDT