It is currently located on a 15-acre campus at Grand Street and Jersey Avenue overlooking New York Harbor and Liberty State Park.
Jersey City Medical Center (JCMC) is a teaching affiliate and a member of Americas Essential Hospitals.
In 1882, the Jersey City Board of Alderman bought land at an elevated location at Baldwin Avenue and Montgomery Street for a new hospital.
[2] In 1917, mayor Frank Hague planned an expanded facility that would attract the best physicians and staff for Jersey City residents.
The original double-wing, six-story Jersey City Hospital was renovated and a 23-story structure was constructed for surgical cases that opened in 1931.
In 2004, JCMC moved to new quarters at Grand Street and Jersey Avenue designed by Philadelphia A/E firm Ballinger and RBSD of New York.
The campus is across the street from the Jersey Avenue station of the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail which provides connections to ferries to New York City, PATH trains and the Liberty Science Center.
The facility, currently operated by RWJBarnabas Health, is the region's state-designated Level II trauma center and the only hospital in Hudson County to do open heart surgery.
[3] JCMC received among the highest scores in Hudson County in the New Jersey Department of Health's 2009 Hospital Performance Report.
[8] In October 2012 the JCMC announced that it would implement an on-line appointment service for non-threatening emergency room treatment, becoming the first hospital in the New York metro area to do so.
Acute Psychiatric and Detoxification Inpatient Care Located at the Jersey City Medical Center.
The closed acute section of the psychiatric unit is Hudson County's designated Short Term Facility.
A full range of services, individual, group, marital, family, psychological testing, and medication management are available for children, adolescents and adults who present with emotional, psychiatric, behavioral, interpersonal, or post traumatic issues.
[11][12] History 1868 – Charity Hospital was Built in Jersey City 1882 – Jersey City Medical Center Moved to Montgomery and Baldwin 1883 – JCMC EMS Responded to 691 EMS Calls 1916 – JCMC EMS Responds to Black Tom Explosion 1919 – JCMC EMS begins utilizing Motorized Ambulances 1930 – JCMC EMS maintains a fleet of 11 ambulances and responds to a record 17,000 requests for aid 1978 – JCMC EMS is one of the nine original paramedic projects in New Jersey 1996 – Achieved Accreditation by the State of New Jersey for the EMT training program 2003 – Partnered with Hudson County Community College to establish an associate degree program in Pre-Hospital Medicine: Paramedic Science 2005 & 2007 – The American Heart Association Training Center successfully obtained American Heart Association accreditation in BLS, PALS, and ACLS 2006 – Implemented real time driver feedback system, Implemented nationally recognized System Status Management GPS Deployment Strategy 2007 – Designed the first in New Jersey "HeartSafe and Emergency Ready Communities", Implemented Electronic Scheduling 2008 – Created Operational Dashboard Reporting, Deployed MARVLIS system 2009 – Implemented electronic charting system, Began the process of certifying EMS Billing Employees through the National Academy of Ambulance Coding 2010 – Achieved Accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services (CAAS), Achieved Accreditation by the Commission of Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP), Achieved Accredited Center of Excellence from the National Academy of Emergency Dispatch, Jersey City Medical Center EMS Department maintains a fleet of 35 emergency vehicles and responds to more than 90,000 incidents a year The HealthGrades website contains the clinical quality data for Jersey City Medical Center, as of 2018.