Teaching Affiliates

Affiliate Care and Teaching Sites

Medical students and resident physicians utilize facilities at University Hospital in Newark; Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation at three locations - West Orange, East Orange, and Saddle Brook - as well as multiple free-standing ambulatory care centers; the Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in East Orange and Lyons; Children's Specialized Hospital in Mountainside; Overlook Hospital in Summit; and Mountainside Hospital in Montclair.

University Hospital :

A Level I Trauma Center with physiatry consultation services, automatic consultation on all spinal cord injured patients and considerable electrodiagnosis exposure for residents. There are a variety of multidisciplinary specialty clinics (such as Chronic Pain, Rheumatology, Muscular Dystrophy, and Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction).

Doctor's Office Complex (DOC) :

University Rehabilitation Associates practice location is in Suites 3100 and 3300 of the DOC. The outpatient rotation includes experience in the Center for Rehabilitation Services, a 9,000 square foot area in the new Doctors Office Center on the Newark campus with a heavy emphasis on acute musculoskeletal and neuromuscular problems.

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation :

Kessler is one of the largest comprehensive rehabilitation centers in the United States. It has over 240 licensed rehabilitation beds in three primary inpatient facilities. Accredited by both the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations ( JCAHO ) and the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), the three Kessler facilities serve as the primary inpatient training sites for PM&R residents.

Rotations where residents and medical students are placed include:

• Kesseler West with inpatient spinal cord injury (model system), amputation and stroke services along with an outpatient musculoskeletal and sports medicine service.

• Kessler East with inpatient traumatic brain injury and stroke services along with an inpatient and outpatient chronic pain/musculoskeletal/orthopedic/ work- hardening service at the East facility.

• Kesseler North with inpatient CVA / orthopedic, geriatric services along with outpatient musculoskeletal / neurology rehabilitation and hand services.

East Orange VA Medical Center :

This 600 bed general hospital has both a Rehabilitation Medicine Service and a Spinal Cord Injury Service. Approximately six to eight months of clinical rotations include a combination of consultative and primary inpatient care for cardiac rehabilitation, neurologic disorders (with extensive electrodiagnostic experience), and general medical/surgical disabilities services. There is also a spinal cord injury rotation.

Children's Specialized Hospital :

Children's Specialized Hospital in Mountainside, NJ, is a 60-bed pediatric facility with extensive inpatient and outpatient health care services. The two-month pediatric rotation includes consultative and primary inpatient care experience as well as extensive ambulatory exposure including pediatric electrodiagnosis.

Overlook Hospital (an affiliate of Atlantic Health System) :

Overlook Hospital in Summit, NJ is a non-profit, acute care, voluntary general Hospital licensed for 490 acute care beds. The institution offers a broad variety of secondary and tertiary services including medical-surgical care, obstetrical and neonatal care, behavioral health care, oncology services, cardiac care including emergency angioplasty, a neuroscience institute, pediatrics, and a highly-acclaimed emergency department. Approximately 100 residents rotate through Overlook at any point in time in such specialties as Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Radiology, Dentistry and a Transitional Year.

Mountainside Hospital (an affiliate of Atlantic Health System) :

Mountainside Hospital is a 246-bed acute care facility in Montclair, NJ. This rotation reflects a private practice setting which includes general inpatient rehabilitation, consultations, outpatient services, electromyography and quality assurance.