The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey heads to Newark
On June 13, trustees and staff members of the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey embarked on a unique bus tour of Newark.
The goal was to reconnect with the foundation’s historical roots in the city’s once-thriving Jewish community.
For more than a quarter of a century, the HFNJ has provided grants to organizations working to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable underserved populations in Newark and its environs, and to the Jewish community of Greater MetroWest.
This mission goes back to the organization’s creation in 1996, when Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (known to many as just “the Beth”) was sold to the RWJ-Barnabas healthcare system for $125 million. Since its inception, HFNJ has provided more than $180 million to improve the health and well-being of everyone in the community.
To further connect the trustees and staff to HFNJ’s history, our first stop on this bus tour — fittingly — was HFNJ’s historic birthplace – the Beth. Much has changed since 1901, when the Newark Jewish community founded the hospital in a modest house. It began as a place where Jewish doctors who were barred from working at other hospitals could practice their profession, and, importantly, where people of all faiths and from walks of life could receive quality medical care.
In recent months, the Beth has gone through several upgrades; among them, it opened an impressive new glass-enclosed atrium and main entrance, which embodies the institution’s tradition of welcoming all in the community into the hospital.
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