The medical center ranks in the top 20 percent of hospitals in New Jersey in the number of cardiac procedures performed.

It was here that Charles Cullen, one of the most prolific serial killers in New Jersey history began to kill patients at Somerset Medical Center, after working at several area hospitals.

[4] In September 2002 Cullen began working for Somerset Medical Center in Somerville, New Jersey in the critical care unit.

Soon afterward, Somerset Medical Center began to observe clues indicating Cullen's wrongdoing.

In July 2003 the executive director of the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System warned Somerset Medical Center officials that at least four suspicious overdoses indicated the possibility that an employee was killing patients.

When a patient in Somerset died of low blood sugar in October 2003, the medical center alerted state authorities.

State officials castigated the hospital for failing to report a nonfatal insulin overdose, administered by Cullen in August.