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Clara Maass Medical Center
Hospital in New Jersey, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
40.7857°N 74.1763°W / 40.7857; -74.1763
Clara Maass Medical Center | |
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RWJBarnabas Health | |
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Geography | |
Location | Belleville, Essex County, New Jersey, United States |
Organization | |
Type | General |
Affiliated university | None |
Services | |
Beds | 342 |
History | |
Opened | 1868 |
Links | |
Website | https://www.rwjbh.org/clara-maass-medical-center |
Lists | Hospitals in New Jersey |
Clara Maass Medical Center is a 342- bed hospital in Belleville, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, that is part of the RWJBarnabas Health.[1] It was founded in 1868 as the Newark German Hospital, and was renamed in 1952 in honor of Clara Maass, a former nurse who trained there at the hospital's Christina Trefz Training School for Nurses, and become the hospital's head nurse. Maass' 1901 death during yellow fever experiments attracted national attention.[2]
In 1956 a new building was completed in Belleville, which is sometimes referred to as "The Hospital in the Park" due to its location opposite Branch Brook Park.[3] In 2022, the hospital was staffed by over 700 physicians with 2,100 total employees.[1]