Clara Maass Medical Center

40°47′09″N 74°10′35″W / 40.7857°N 74.1763°W / 40.7857; -74.1763

Hospital in New Jersey, United States

Clara Maass Medical Center
RWJBarnabas Health



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]

Notes

^ ^a ^b "Clara Maass Medical Center". RWJBarnabas Health. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
^ Lynn Wenzel & Carol J. Binkowski (2003). More Than Petticoats: Remarkable New Jersey Women. TwoDot. pp. 84–95. ISBN 0-7627-1272-4.
^ "New Clara Maass Hospital to Provide area with 324-bed facilities". The Nutley Sun. August 9, 1956. Archived from the original on 2005-12-30. Retrieved 2009-07-22. Known as "The Hospital in the Park", the new Clara Maass is located on a knoll in the center of a 17-acre site on the Newark-Belleville-Bloomfield boundaries on the westerly side of Franklin Avenue, opposite Branch Brook Park. It is now one-third complete. A seven-story building, costing an estimated $5 million, the new Clara Maass will be of fire-proof construction throughout. It is designed to proved the utmost in efficiency, service, and patient care. Its doors will be open to every race, creed, and color.