About Us
Located in Belleville, Clara Maass Medical Center is a 472-bed acute care medical center serving Essex, Hudson, Passaic and Bergen counties. Founded in 1869 as the Newark German Hospital, the medical center is named for an American nurse, Clara Louise Maass.
The medical center is one of the area’s most trusted resources for specialty services such as orthopedics, neurosurgery (including brain and spine), oncology, bariatrics and women’s health, and offers superior care in behavioral health, including electroconvulsive therapy; obstetrics; gynecology and labor and delivery; and robotic surgery. The medical center leads the state in offering advanced treatment in ophthalmology. Clara Maass Medical Center’s cardiac services program offers advanced catheterization procedures including emergent and elective angioplasty through the wrist to reduce recovery time, and is nationally recognized for acute coronary syndrome, heart failure and cardiac rehabilitation.
The medical center is designated as a Primary Stroke Center by the New Jersey Department of Health and the Joint Commission. In partnership with Rutgers Cancer Institute — the state’s only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center— Clara Maass medical center offers a world-class team of researchers and specialists to fight most types of cancer, providing close-to-home access to the latest treatment and clinical trials. The medical center completed a transformational facility campaign that resulted in a new Emergency Department entrance that opened in 2019 that features a redesigned entrance with a single new walk-in/drop-off entrance, a new treatment room, two spacious waiting areas (with charging stations at each seat) — one for pediatric patients and the other for general population emergency patients — a consultation room for private conversations with patients and families, and a discharge lounge specifically for patients who are waiting for transportation home or for additional instructions from the medical center’s health team. A 13-bed Pediatric Treat and Release Unit and Observation Unit and Behavioral Health Unit opened in 2019 to treat patients under evaluation by the Psychiatric Emergency Screening Services team. The new unit provides six private patient rooms with flat-screen televisions in each room, a secure area for patient belongings and a private consultation room for the health care team and patient families.
Since 2018, the medical center has unveiled four state-of-the-art operating rooms, a post-anesthesia care unit and a 23-bed observation unit for adult patients. The campus expansion project included construction of a four-story 87,000-square-foot building featuring a 32-bed Intensive Care Unit, two levels of medical office building space, a main lobby, an admitting and registration department, a retail pharmacy with concierge service and an additional level to the parking garage, all of which opened in 2017. Committed to the health and wellness of its community, the Center of Excellence for Latino Health at Clara Maass Medical Center was established in 2016 to address the social determinants of health within the local Hispanic community. The first hospital in the country to be named for a nurse, the hospitals’ namesake, Clara Louise Maass, was posthumously inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.
