Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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MEDICAL CENTER MOVES: ‘Hot truck’ items were moved on Tuesday
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer The staging area by the operating rooms was buzzing with activity as hospital staff unwrapped, wiped down and sanitized equipment being moved over from the old hospital in Princeton to the new University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro. Staff received seven trucks of “hot truck” items throughout the morning…
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MEDICAL CENTER MOVES: Health Center also makes a move
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer As the new hospital opened on Tuesday, another vital community asset also opened, just without quite as much fanfare and to-do. The new Bristol-Myers Squibb Community Health Center will provide primary and specialty care to uninsured or underinsured residents. The first clinic patient, Natvarlal Darji of Dayton, was very pleased…
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MEDICAL CENTER MOVES: First baby at new hospital: It’s a girl!
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer At 6:55 a.m., a man with a woman in labor parked in the front lot of the hospital and slowly made their way across the driveway, pausing for contractions as she arrived at the front door of the new University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro at precisely 7 a.m.,…
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MEDICAL CENTER MOVES: Cancer care center caters to patients
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer Cancer patients will have a tranquil and comfortable new place to receive their treatments along with staff to guide them through the complicated, and often scary, process in the new Edward & Marie Matthews Center for Cancer Care at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro. The outpatient center…
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MEDICAL CENTER MOVES: Hospital has concierge desk for patients’ needs
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer When checking in, there are lots of things that are forgotten in the often emergency situations a hospital stay brings. Forgotten things are the specialty of the concierge at the new University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro. ”One of our guiding principles has been to enhance the experience of…
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MEDICAL CENTER MOVES: To the new building
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer By 7:15 a.m. on Tuesday morning, the move of the University Medical Center of Princeton was in full swing, the first patient had entered the new Plainsboro location and the procession of patients across Route 1 was under way. ”It’s unbelievable,” said Barry Rabner, CEO of Princeton HealthCare System. “All…
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MEDICAL CENTER MOVES: Emergency room passes opening day with flying colors
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer The din of nurses and equipment filled the emergency room as staff hustled and bustled up and down the halls in the early afternoon on May 22, going about their business and handling patients as if it was any ordinary Tuesday and not moving day for the University Medical Center…
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PRINCETON: Nine taken to hospital after school bus crash
Eight John Witherspoon Middle Schools baseball players and their school bus driver were slightly injured Tuesday after the bus crashed into a tree and telephone pole on Valley Road. The accident occurred at 3:23 p.m., according to Princeton Township Police, who said 19 students, all boys, were being bused from the school to the baseball…
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MEDICAL CENTER MOVES: From the old building
By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer The main lobby, once bustling with staff and patients, now stood desolate and soundless. Artwork had been stripped from the walls, leaving them naked and unfamiliar. Some floors were lined with brimming plastic crates, wheel chairs and untouched breakfast trays. Others were cluttered with medical equipment, machines and other paraphernalia.…
