Patient Care Frequently Asked Questions

Rutgers Health is dedicated to advancing biomedical and health-related education, research, and patient care. Rutgers Health is revolutionizing health and wellness by integrating leading-edge technologies with patient-centered education to provide innovative, compassionate care that improves our patients' well-being.

You and your family can still reach your preferred health care provider in the same manner; phone numbers for the office of your health professional remain unchanged.

You and your family can still reach your preferred health care provider in the same manner; phone numbers for the office of your health professional remain unchanged.

Rutgers Health connects Rutgers’ research, education, and clinical care to evolving health care needs. With a myriad of medical services available, our patients have the opportunity to benefit from Rutgers’ highly ranked academic expertise, as well as its proficiency in research and discoveries in medicine. Patients gain all the advantages of an academic health care provider organization—with our research, clinical trials, latest technology, and specialists—close to home.

Patient care at Rutgers Health always seeks to:

• Ensure the consistent delivery of value-added health care by Rutgers in New Jersey and beyond.
• Present a unified brand that represents a single, integrated Rutgers clinical program to health care consumers and clinical partners.
• Set and enforce health-related operating and value policies on behalf of Rutgers.

Patient care at Rutgers Health is comprised of faculty medical and dental practices, community-focused clinics, nationally designated centers, leading institutes, and behavioral health care centers within and associated with Rutgers University.

As an outstanding academic health care provider organization, Rutgers Health provides health care benefits as well as education, research, and economic benefits to our state, which include:

• Offering the most advanced treatments for patients close to home.
• Creating high-level, high-paying jobs.
• Increasing external funding.
• Better positioning New Jersey within the nation’s changing and increasingly competitive health care landscape.