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- 1865 - New Jersey’s First Hospital is Formed In what was to prove a groundbreaking decision, a dedicated group of women members of Grace Church and Christ Church of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark -- known as the Ladies Society of Saint Barnabas House -- establishes The Hospital of Saint Barnabas in a private home.
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1865 - New Jersey’s First Hospital is Formed. In what was to prove a groundbreaking decision, a dedicated group of women members of Grace Church and Christ Church of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark -- known as the Ladies Society of Saint Barnabas House -- establishes The Hospital of Saint Barnabas in a private home.
A Proud History of New Jersey’s Oldest and Largest. Nonprofit, Nonsectarian Hospital. Welcome to Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center (formerly Saint Barnabas Medical Center) An Affiliate of RWJBarnabas Health.
History. In 1865, a group of women known as the Ladies Society of Saint Barnabas House established The Hospital of Saint Barnabas in a private home. Eliza Titus who was the first patient gave her small estate to help in creating the first hospital on McWhorter Street in Newark.
St Barnabas Hospital, originally known as the Home for the Incurables, was founded in 1866 by Reverend Washington Rodman, of the Grace Episcopal Church in West Farms, Bronx. The hospital became the first chronic disease hospital and was housed in a modest frame house and could serve 33 patients.
The Home was founded by the Rev. Washington Rodman, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, in the West Farms area of what is now the Bronx. Rev. Rodman’s goal was to bring hope and medical care to a group that had neither.
Mar 9, 1998 · St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx was founded in 1866 as the Home for the Incurables, a place where people with cataclysmic strokes or crippling heart disease went to die. By the early 1980's,...
1917 - Newark’s Ruth Edge Begins Remarkable Service. 12-year-old Ruth Edge, a Newark-born resident, becomes a Saint Barnabas volunteer. This launches a noteworthy career of 82 years of continuous dedicated service to the hospital. 1932 - Hospital Merges and Establishes Nonsectarian Status.
