WNET-TV (PBS) - The new $750 million state-of-the-art facility will be known as the Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center. The project made possible through a partnership with RWJBarnabas Health, and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. Read More

Home News Tribune - Barry H. Ostrowsky, president and CEO of RWJBarnabas Health, said, "this trailblazing facility will help us further our mission in the delivery of outstanding comprehensive oncology care for our state and improving the health and well-being of our residents.” Read More

NJBIZ - “Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey together with RWJBarnabas Health already serves as a destination for advanced cancer treatments including clinical trials, stem cell transplantation, proton therapy and CAR T-cell therapy. This trailblazing facility will help us further our mission in the delivery of outstanding comprehensive oncology care for our state and improving the health and well-being of our residents,” stated RWJBarnabas Health President and CEO Barry Ostrowsky. “Jack Morris has been the greatest champion of this project since its inception." Read More

ROI-NJ - The totality of the announcements was most pleasing to Barry Ostrowsky, the CEO of RWJBarnabas Health. The facility represents the vision and the mission of the health care system. “At RWJBarnabas Health, we have a very simple mission: To improve the lives of the people who live in the communities we serve,” he said. Read More

WMBC TV 63 - RWJBarnabas Health and the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey broke ground on a new 750-million-dollar facility. The Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey cancer pavilion will be the state's first freestanding cancer hospital. Read More

TAPinto.net - Keosha Doyle put a human face on what it means to build a world-class cancer hospital in the city. At age 27, she was treated for a rare type of sarcoma at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey a few years ago, but only after being turned away by four other cancer hospitals outside of New Jersey. The New Brunswick native shared her story Thursday to a crowd that included Gov. Phil Murphy, Mayor Jim Cahill, Board of Middlesex County Commissioners Director Ron Rios, Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway, RWJ Barnabas Health President and CEO Barry Ostrowsky and other officials. Read More

New Jersey 101.5 - "We expect to open or cut a ribbon on the new cancer center in the second or third quarter of 2024," said Dr. Steven Libutti, senior vice president of oncology services for RWJBarnabas Health and director of the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. Read More

Home News Tribune - RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, broke ground Thursday morning at the future site of the state’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. Read More

NJ Spotlight - With construction about to get underway, a groundbreaking ceremony was held in New Brunswick Thursday for a new cancer hospital, the state’s first such free-standing cancer hospital. The new facility will have “clinical spaces, diagnostic spaces, research, operating rooms, and inpatient space,“ said Christopher Paladino, President of New Brunswick Development Corporation. Read More

Chief Healthcare Executive - New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy led a group of pollical, academic, and healthcare leaders in New Brunswick, N.J., Thursday to break ground on what will become the Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center, a $750 million, 510,000 square-foot-structure that will be the new home of the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the state’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. Read More

ROI-NJ - When the Jack & Sheryl Morris Cancer Center, a 12-story, 510,000-square-foot facility that represents a major expansion of the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, had its ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday, it marked another step in the institute’s place as one of the top cancer facilities in the country. Read More

ROI-NJ - If Jack Morris, the chair of RWJBarnabas Health and the leading philanthropist on the project, has his way, it certainly will change the goal post. Morris’ goal is for the center to be strong enough to attract patients from New York City — and around the world — to New Jersey. “We believe that we can build a world-class cancer center here — and we are going to build a world-class cancer center here,” he told ROI-NJ. “And it will attract people from around the world.” Read More

Centraljersey.com - RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the state’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, in partnership with the New Brunswick Development Corporation, broke ground on the state’s first freestanding cancer hospital. This trailblazing facility will help us further our mission in the delivery of outstanding comprehensive oncology care for our state and improving the health and well-being of our residents,” Barry H. Ostrowsky, president and chief executive officer, RWJBarnabas Health, said in the statement. Read More

New Jersey Patch - On Thursday morning, RWJBarnabas officially started construction on a massive brand-new cancer facility that, once completed, will soar over the New Brunswick skyline and be visible for miles around. Thursday morning's groundbreaking was attended by Gov. Phil Murphy, who spoke, and Rutgers president Jonathan Holloway, plus RWJBarnabas Health CEO Barry Ostrowsky. Read More

REBusinessOnline - A public-private partnership led by the New Brunswick Development Corp. has begun construction on a $750 million cancer treatment facility in the northern-central part of the Garden State. RWJBarnabas Health and the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey will operate the facility, which will provide inpatient and outpatient cancer services, including ancillary services, as well as state-of-the-art laboratories for research. Construction of the 12-story building is slated for completion in 2024. Read More

CoStar - New Jersey is on its way to getting its first free-standing cancer hospital, as RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey began construction on the $750 million facility Thursday in New Brunswick. Read More

Becker's Hospital Review - West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health and the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey will break ground on a $750 million cancer facility June 24. The 12-story facility will house inpatient and outpatient cancer services, along with research laboratories. Read More

Dotmed - “Our new cancer center will have the latest and most advanced diagnostic imaging services including CT, PET, MR, 3D mammography, X-ray, ultrasound, interventional radiology, nuclear medicine, and ECHO cardiograms, which will be utilized as part of our CardioOncology Program," Dr. Steven Libutti, director of Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and senior vice president of oncology services at RWJBarnabas Health, told HCB News. "These modalities will complement the sophisticated radiation therapy treatment options such as proton beam therapy, already available.” Read More

Daily Targum - Construction on the new Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey began Thursday morning with a ceremonial groundbreaking for New Jersey’s first freestanding cancer hospital, according to an article from Rutgers Today. “With the RWJBarnabas health system we are looking forward to a healthier future in which our citizens can receive all the care that they need without ever leaving the state of New Jersey,” said Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Chancellor Brian L. Strom. “Now, in our tireless quest to improve the life and health of our citizens, New Jersey opens another front in the war against disease, focused on cancer.” Read More

Newsquick24 - RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey kicked off Thursday at a cancer facility in New Brunswick. The $ 750 million project is for a 12-story, 510,000-square-foot cancer center to be completed by 2024. It will be New Jersey’s first independent cancer hospital, similar to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Center in New York, said Dr. Steven Libutti, senior vice president of oncology services at the health system and director of the cancer institute. Read More