Hunterdon Medical Center is a 176-bed non-profit community hospital

Hospital

A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....

 located in Raritan Township

Raritan Township, New Jersey

Raritan Township is a Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2010 Census, the township population was 22,185...

, New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

 near Flemington

Flemington, New Jersey

Flemington is a borough in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2010 Census, the borough population was 4,581. It is the county seat of Hunterdon County....

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Hunterdon Medical Center was founded in 1946 and opened in 1953, a culmination of efforts by the Hunterdon County

Hunterdon County, New Jersey

Hunterdon County is a county located in the western section of the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 128,349. It is part of the New York Metropolitan Area. Its county seat is Flemington....

 Board of Agriculture to provide rural medical care to the region. Hunterdon at the time was the only county in the state without a hospital.

Since 1972 Hunterdon Medical Center been affiliated with the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is a public medical school located in Piscataway and New Brunswick, New Jersey, and one of the eight schools of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey . In cooperation with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the medical school’s principal...

 at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey is the state-run health sciences institution of New Jersey, United States. It has eight distinct academic units...

. A three-year Family Medicine Residency Program is offered through this teaching affiliation.

Hunterdon Medical Center is located near New Jersey Route 31 on Wescott Drive, named in honor of one of its founders, Lloyd Wescott

Lloyd Wescott

Lloyd Bruce Wescott was an agriculturalist, civil servant, and philanthropist in New Jersey. Born and educated in Wisconsin, he moved to New York after college before settling in New Jersey where he served as a member of agricultural boards, chairman of the New Jersey State Board of Control of...

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