A generous gift helps pave the way for a new state-of-the-art cancer center.
Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center (CBMC) has received a visionary gift of $30 million from Andrea and Anthony Melchiorre to support a new multidisciplinary stand-alone cancer center now under construction on the hospital campus in Livingston.
Scheduled to open in 2025, the $225 million, five-story, 137,000-square-foot facility will be known as the Melchiorre Cancer Center at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center.
Over the past 12 years, the Melchiorre family has been extremely generous to the hospital, supporting numerous programs, including the Cooperman Family Pavilion, Radiation Oncology and the Emergency Department. The family’s most recent commitment brings their total giving to the hospital to nearly $50 million.
“Like countless families, we have been personally touched by cancer,” say Andrea and Anthony Melchiorre. “We know that this new cancer center—which will bring together the region’s top oncologists with best-in-class services in one dedicated setting—will bring renewed hope to people in New Jersey and throughout the region.”
“We are incredibly grateful to the Melchiorre family for this profoundly generous gift as well as for their unwavering service to CBMC and RWJBarnabas Health,” says Mark E. Manigan, President and Chief Executive Officer of RWJBarnabas Health. “Through their investment, we are expanding access to cancer care across New Jersey.”
An Integrated Network
The project is an example of the transformative statewide investments to reimagine cancer care that are being made by RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute, the state’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The Melchiorre Cancer Center— along with the Vogel Medical Campus in Monmouth County and the Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center in New Brunswick, which will be New Jersey’s first freestanding cancer hospital—will bring together nationally recognized physicians and provide the most advanced cancer treatments and compassionate care for the communities they serve. When the new cancer center at CBMC opens in December 2025, “it will serve as the northern hub for RWJBarnabas Health’s oncology services,” says Richard L. Davis, President and Chief Executive Officer of CBMC. “Thanks to donors like the Melchiorres, patients will have access to a full array of medical, surgical and radiation oncology services under one roof.”
“Expanded capabilities and facilities are made possible in part thanks to growing philanthropic investments being made to the health system,” says Glenn Miller, Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer for RWJBarnabas Health. “People want to support our mission—and they want to fight cancer. This gift from Andrea and Anthony is the fifth historic gift that we have received in the last few years. We are humbled by these visionary investments that inspire donors at all levels.”
“RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute have created an integrated world-class network of comprehensive cancer research and care, bringing new state-of-the-art facilities such as the Melchiorre Cancer Center close to home for patients,” says Steven K. Libutti, MD, Director of Rutgers Cancer Institute and Senior Vice President, Oncology Services, RWJBarnabas Health. “We are extremely grateful to supporters like the Melchiorre family who are helping us transform the face of cancer together.”
Learn more about the Melchiorre Cancer Center at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center.
