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Princeton HealthCare System Foundation Launches $115 MillionCapital Campaign for New Hospital
Jun 9, 2008
Princeton HealthCare System Foundation Launches $115 MillionCapital Campaign for New Hospital

PRINCETON, NJ -- Princeton HealthCare System Foundation announcedthe launch today of the most ambitious fundraising campaign in itshistory and what appears to be the largest hospital fundraisingcampaign ever in New Jersey.

Design for Healing – The Campaign for the New UniversityMedical Center at Princeton seeks to raise $115 million in supportof the new, $441 million state-of-the-art hospital to be built inPlainsboro in replacement of UMCP’s current Princetonfacility.

“Our goal of creating one of the finest regional medicalcenter in the country will be achieved because of you,”Princeton HealthCare System President and CEO Barry S. Rabner tolda group of community and business leaders, physicians, donors andother hospital supporters at a June 6 event in Plainsboro outliningthe campaign. “This is an opportunity to be a part ofhistory, to create a new hospital from the ground up that willprovide the best quality healthcare for generations to come in afacility that is designed for healing.”
Design for Healing – The Campaign for the New UniversityMedical Center at Princeton will support three specific areas. Atotal of $100 million will go toward the construction of the newhospital building. An additional $10 million will be allocated tosupport specific programmatic requests of donors. The remaining $5million will be for unrestricted programmatic needs.
The campaign began its “nucleus” phase in early 2006with outreach to volunteers, long-time donors and other knownsupporters of the hospital. A total of $76 million has been raisedto date as a result of those efforts, putting the campaigntwo-thirds of the way toward achieving its goal.

Major gifts from that phase include $25 million from David andPatricia Atkinson of Pennsylvania – the largest individualdonation ever to a New Jersey hospital; $6 million fromBristol-Myers Squibb; $5 million from William and Joan Schreyer ofPrinceton; and $5 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
“We have had wonderful support for this new facility, and nowwe shift from what has been the quiet or nucleus phase of thecampaign to the public phase of the campaign, already with momentumon our side,” said Stephen Distler, capital campaignchairman. “Now we reach out to members of the broadercommunity -- area corporations, businesses, foundations andcitizens – to help make them as excited by this opportunityas we are, this once in a lifetime opportunity to create one of thebest, if not the best, regional hospitals in the United States,right in their own community.”
The new hospital, scheduled to open in 2011, is poised todramatically reshape the institution founded in 1919, as well asthe delivery of healthcare in Central New Jersey.

The move to Plainsboro will see UMCP trade its current nine-acrePrinceton location, which is bounded by residences, for anexpansive 50-acre site within a 158-acre health campus with easyaccess to Route One, Scudders Mill Road and Plainsboro Road.
Healthcare experts agree that the way a hospital is designed andbuilt directly impacts the care provided patients. The newUniversity Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP), being designed byHellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum (HOK) and RMJM Hillier, willincorporate the most current thinking and best practices inhealthcare design, resulting in a facility that enhances patientsafety, helps eliminate medical errors, reduces infections andimproves clinical outcomes.
Design features include an abundance of natural light; spacious andflexible operating rooms to accommodate robotics and other emergingtechnologies; single patient rooms that help reduce infection andmaximize patient privacy, with amenities such as wireless Internetaccess, room-dedicated ventilation and temperature control systemsand room service dining; and a broad spectrum of energy andresource-conservation innovations that will make the new UMCP oneof the most environmentally-advanced hospitals in the nation.
Joseph Stampe, vice president of development for PrincetonHealthCare System Foundation, encouraged people to learn more aboutthe new hospital and join the campaign by visiting thefoundation’s web site at www.princetonhcs.org/foundation,which includes a just-produced video about the project. Stampenoted that the Foundation can also accept contributions to thecampaign on-line.

“This campaign will require broad-based support from theentire community,” said Stampe. “We have already come agreat distance toward realizing our goal. The remaining distancewill help us realize not just a goal, but a dream of creating thefinest regional hospital in the United States.”
The hospital's site plan is currently under review by PlainsboroTownship. Hospital leaders hope to break ground later this summer.
Selection of the Plainsboro site followed a three-year planningprocess involving extensive community outreach and collaborationwith all stakeholders, including state and local governmentleaders, Princeton neighborhood residents, hospital administration,trustees and staff.
Early in 2007, the New Jersey State Department of Health and SeniorServices officially supported the hospital's relocation by grantinga Certificate of Need. In January 2008, Plainsboro Township adoptedthe necessary zoning to permit the hospital's construction.