Celebrating National Nurses Month May is National Nurses Month, which includes Florence Nightingale's birthday on May 12th. These permanent dates enhance planning and position National Nurses Month as an established recognition event. As of 1998, May 8 was designated as National Student Nurses Day, to be celebrated annually. DONATE IN HONOR OF A NURSE [...]

Honoring Women Making A Difference at University Hospital Jennifer Erdelyi As a Senior Vice President and Wealth Strategist at Bank of America, Jennifer Erdelyi discusses philanthropic impact with her clients regularly. She lives the adage of ‘leaving the world a better place than you found it’. As a [...]

University Hospital Foundation Celebrates Honoring Two Female Transplant Surgeons Shaping the Duture Two female surgeons who are among University Hospital’s nationally recognized Liver Transplant Program will be celebrated as “sheroes” and trailblazers on Thursday, March 30, 2023 as part of the Toast To Our Heroes benefit fundraiser. Drs. Keri E. Lunsford and Grace [...]

Meet the Team at University Hospital Foundation: Shikera Usher, Intern My name is Shikera Usher (she/her). I was born and raised in Newark, NJ...here at University Hospital as a matter of fact! I am a former Educator and current student at Rutgers University Newark's School of Public Affairs & Administration (SPAA). I am [...]

University Hospital Foundation Donors Spread Joy to Pediatric Patients During the last few weeks of 2022, University Hospital Pediatrics was brimming with gifts for patients thanks to multiple generous donors.Provident Bank held a toy drive for employees and customers at three branch locations in Newark, Kearny, and Bellevue. At the end of the toy [...]

Foundation Awarded $866,396 for Hospital Violence Intervention Program Hospital Violence Intervention Program The New Jersey Office of Attorney General awarded $866,396 to the Foundation for University Hospital to maintain and expand our Hospital Violence Intervention Program (HVIP) which provides critical resources and intervention services for victims of crime treated by University Hospital.  HVIP [...]

In an effort to strengthen the ability of University Hospital (UH) to save more lives of the critically injured, the hospital, in collaboration with the University Hospital Foundation, recently completed the disbursement of a nearly $200,000 grant from the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey (HFNJ). The grant was directly invested in comprehensive training, education, [...]