| Clara Maass Medical Center | |
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| RWJBarnabas Health | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Belleville, Essex County, New Jersey, United States |
| Organization | |
| Type | General |
| Affiliated university | None |
| Services | |
| Beds | 342 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1868 |
| Links | |
| Website | https://www.rwjbh.org/clara-maass-medical-center |
| Lists | Hospitals in New Jersey |
Clara Maass Medical Center is a 342- bed hospital in Belleville, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, that is part of the RWJBarnabas Health system. [1] It was founded in 1868 as the Newark German Hospital, and was renamed in 1952 in honor of Clara Maass, a former nurse who trained there at the hospital's Christina Trefz Training School for Nurses, and become the hospital's head nurse. Maass' 1901 death during yellow fever experiments attracted national attention. [2]
In 1956 a new building was completed in Belleville, which is sometimes referred to as "The Hospital in the Park" due to its location opposite Branch Brook Park. [3] In 2022, the hospital was staffed by over 700 physicians with 2,100 total employees. [1]
