OUR VISION
Children's Specialized Hospital is the preeminent provider of comprehensive pediatric rehabilitative/habilitative services throughout New Jersey and the region, and will have centers of excellence that are nationally and internationally renowned.

OUR MISSION
The Mission of Children's Specialized Hospital is to be the center of excellence for infants, children, and young adults with emphasis on their rehabilitative/habilitative needs. We meet this mission using our Corporate Values.

OUR CORPORATE VALUES

1. Compassion: Providing a loving, caring environment for children, families and each other.
2. Excellence: Being the best at our jobs, providing the highest quality care to our children, constantly striving to improve and be the best.
3. Fun: Providing a child-friendly environment. If we have fun doing our jobs it will reflect in how we deal with the children and each other.
4. Innovation: Being creative in providing care and problem solving.
5. Teamwork: Children’s is a team where every person is needed to provide the quality of care we are known for. We must work together to be successful.
   
   

Description:
Children's Specialized Hospital
150 New Providence Road
Mountainside, NJ 07092-2590
1-888-CHILDREN (244-5373)
An Affiliate Member of the Robert Wood Johnson Health System
Children's Specialized Hospital is the largest comprehensive, pediatric rehabilitation hospital in the United States, providing services to more than 12,000 children annually at its sites throughout New Jersey. Children's provides a wide array of medical, developmental, educational, and rehabilitative services for infants, children, adolescents, and young adults without regard to ability to pay. Children’s Specialized is licensed to provide 151 patient beds through its inpatient rehabilitation and Long Term Care programs.

Inpatient Programs and Services
• Comprehensive Inpatient Rehabilitation including:
General Rehabilitation, Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Respiratory Care Unit, Spinal Cord Dysfunction Rehabilitation
• Rehabilitation Technology and Augmentative Communication Technology to assist children in reaching their maximum potential
• Long Term Care Unit

Outpatient Services
• Child Development Center for the evaluation and treatment of developmental, neurological, physical, and learning disabilities including:
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Pervasive Developmental Delay, Autism, Epilepsy, Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy
• Primary Care Practice for coordination of care for children with special needs
• Child Study Team providing psychological, social, and educational evaluations for pre-school and school age children
• Subspecialty Pediatric Services: Physiatry (physical medicine and rehabilitation), Orthopedics, Developmental Pediatrics, Neurology, Urology, Ophthalmology, Dentistry, and ENT
• Physical Therapy
• Occupational Therapy
• Recreational Therapy
• Speech and Hearing, Comprehensive Feeding Program
• Neuro-Rehabilitation program providing cognitive rehabilitation for children and young adults with acquired brain injuries and facilitating re-entry to the school and community
• Psychological and Neuropsychological Services including evaluations and individual, family, and group psychotherapy
• Early Intervention Program
• Pre-School and Primary School for children with special needs
• Medical Day Care Center for medically unstable and technologically dependent children
• Nationally recognized Children's wheelchair sports team, “Lightning Wheels"
• Summer Camps for children with special needs
• Parent Resource Center with Internet access offering the latest information on pediatric development and rehabilitation



Teaching Programs
Children's Specialized Hospital provides future physicians with training in pediatrics and/or physiatry in conjunction with UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, John F. Kennedy Medical Center, Atlantic Health Care System, and Jersey Shore Medical Center.

Accreditation
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
• Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
• American-Speech-Language-Hearing-Association (ASHA)

Facility Locations

Mountainside: LTC & Outpatient
150 New Providence Rd
Mountainside, NJ 07092

Fanwood: School & NeuroRehab
330 South Ave
Fanwood, NJ 07023

Plaza (Outpatient)
313 South Ave
Fanwood, NJ 07023

Hamilton: Outpatient
3575 Quakerbridge Rd Hamilton, NJ 08619

Toms River: LTC & Outpatient
94 Stevens Rd
Toms River, NJ 08755

Outpatient
310 Main St
Toms River, NJ 08753

Newark: Pediatric Practice of Essex
395-97 North 5th St
Newark, NJ 07107

Roselle Park: Pediatric Medical Day Care Center
316 W. Westfield Ave
Roselle Park, NJ 07204

Pediatric Practice
316 W. Westfield Ave
Roselle Park, NJ 07204

New Brunswick Neuropsychology and
Neurorehabilitation
1 Penn Plaza
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

New Brunswick Inpatient
200 Somerset St.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
1-888-CHILDREN (1-888-244-5373)
www.childrens-specialized.org

History:
History of Children’s Specialized Hospital

Children’s Specialized Hospital was founded in 1891 as Children’s Country Home where children were brought from city hospitals for recreation in the country. This activity was carried out in cooperation with the New York Herald Tribune’s Fresh Air Fund.

Over the years the Hospital has served the area in the diphtheria epidemic of 1903; housed 71 refugees of the Great Morgan Disaster of 1918; and served as an isolation hospital during the influenza epidemic that followed.

From 1942 through 1956, the Hospital served the needs of victims of poliomyelitis exclusively. After the successful control of this disease by the Salk Vaccine, our attentions were turned to evaluation and intensive therapy cerebral palsied children and other types of young people with physical disabilities.

This role has expanded to include many infants, victims of auto accidents, sports accidents, and others who can benefit from an intensive rehabilitation program.

In August of 1977, a new 60-bed patient wing was opened after many years of planning and construction. This marked the beginning of a new era in the history of the Hospital. Today, our patients are cared for in a modern addition with separate nursing areas for the younger children and teenagers.

Our Long-Term Care unit which opened in 1988, is New Jersey’s first such hospital-based facility.

The Richard B. Ahfeld Center for Children (formerly known as the Outpatient Center) was opened in July of 1988. Located in Fanwood, New Jersey, the center provides the Hospital’s Outpatient Services and Special Programs.

In 1992, the Hospital opened a 30-bed facility with a full outpatient program in Toms River, New Jersey. There is now another outpatient center in Hamilton, New Jersey as well. The Pediatric Practice in Roselle Park and Newark was opened in 1996.

The rehabilitation team includes physicians, nurses, therapists, dieticians, teachers, psychologists and pharmacists, all working together to allow the child to attain his greatest potential- medically, socially, academically, and emotionally.

Contact people:

Janet Weston, Volunteer Manager, (phone), (email) Vivian Concepcion, Secretary, (phone), (email) Vieno Wurret, Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (732) 258-7226

Address:

200 Somerset Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.childrens-specialized.org

Directions:

Directions PSE&G Children's Specialized Hospital at New Brunswick 200 Somerset Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Phone: (732) 258-7000 From The North (I-95 South / New Jersey Turnpike Cars Only Lane South): At Exit 9, take ramp right for RT-18 North toward Tower Center Blvd.. . . (more)

Miscellaneous Information

Does this opportunity allow for people completing community service hours?
	Yes