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COCKTAILS AND SILENT AUCTION
DINNER AND AWARDS PRESENTATION
Business Attire
Alfred C. Koeppe
President and CEO
Founder
The North Ward Center and The Robert Treat Academy
Charter School
Director, Hematology and Oncology, Newark Beth
Israel Medical Center
Frederick B. Cohen, MD, Comprehensive Cancer
and Blood Disorders Center
recognizes the commitments that our honorees have made
to Newark and its future. They have invested in the
artistic, educational, civic, business, sports, entertainment
and health opportunities that have enriched our community
and positioned it for future growth.
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of New Jersey are proud to recognize their outstanding accomplishments.
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (NBIMC), a 673-bed regional care, teaching hospital established in 1901, is an affiliate of Barnabas Health. NBIMC is renowned for providing patients with compassionate, innovative and superior care. Serving the residents of Newark and the state of New Jersey for more than a century, The Beth provides the finest health care and health care training in the state. As a teaching hospital, The Beth trains 185 physicians annually in 18 specialties, making it the largest non-University based teaching hospital in New Jersey.
The Beth offers the state’s most comprehensive Robotic Surgery Center with expertise in cardiac, gynecologic, urological, general and pediatric surgeries. The Beth is also home to The Barnabas Health Heart Center at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, which offers the best in adult cardiology services and cardiac surgery programs,
including heart transplantation; the nationally recognized Pacemaker and Defibrillator Center; the Frederick B. Cohen, MD, Comprehensive Cancer and Blood Disorders Center; a technologically advanced Obstetrics and Gynecological Program providing a full spectrum of maternity and women’s services including a perinatal staff that provides expert intensive care for mothers and infants in a compassionate environment.
In 1997, Children’s Hospital of New Jersey (CHNJ) joined The Beth family. Now considered New Jersey’s premier pediatric facility, CHNJ provides medical expertise in more than 30 pediatric sub-specialties,
serving the children of Newark and throughout New Jersey. As a teaching institution, CHNJ delivers a special level of care to its patients, attracting the state’s most experienced physicians committed to academic and medical excellence. CHNJ is home to the state’s largest Level III New Jersey Designated Regional Perinatal
Center with a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit that provides
care to some of the most critically ill newborns throughout New Jersey; a Pediatric Critical Care Center, a Valerie Fund Center for children with cancer and blood disorders; a Pediatric Emergency Department, the busiest in the state; and many other unique critical services.
Beneficiary of the 2009 “Partners in Progress” dinner, The Frederick B. Cohen, MD, Cancer & Blood Disorder Center at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center offers the most advanced cancer services for diagnosis and treatment of all types of cancer and is one of only four statedesignated Hemophilia Treatment Centers. Recognized as
a leading center for cancer care in the greater Newark area, the Cohen Cancer Center’s reputation for outstanding quality and clinical expertise also attracts patients from throughout northern New Jersey. The center offers patients the highest quality care, latest advances in cancer treatments and state-of-the-art technologies while providing individualized care with sensitivity, understanding and compassion. The broad range of services, comprehensive treatment options and extraordinary skill of physicians, nurses and social workers make the Cohen Cancer Center a destination hospital for the highest quality cancer care
anywhere in New Jersey.
The Cohen Cancer Center’s unified approach to cancer care reflects the combined expertise of many physicians, surgical oncologists, medical oncologists, gynecologic oncologists, radiologists, radiation oncologists and pathologists, who guide each patient through diagnosis, treatment and recovery. This approach ensures that patients of all ages who need several different therapies receive the
ideal combination. Patients seeking cancer care at the Cohen Cancer Center receive unparalleled clinical expertise and the sensitivity, understanding and compassion needed to face what can be one of life’s most difficult challenges.
2008 was an extraordinary year of accomplishments for Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of New Jersey. Among its many medical successes, th e renowned heart transplant team performed its 500th heart transplant. The lung transplant program, the only licensed program in New Jersey began performing
adult lung transplantation. The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit received national recognition by JCAHO for being a leader in preventing MRSA. Newark Beth and Children’s Hospital became the first hospital in New Jersey to perform Therapeutic Hypothermia on a newborn to prevent swelling of the brain and neurological damage.
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