Newark Beth Israel Medical Center is a 607-bed, regional care, teaching hospital. Founded in 1901, it recently became affiliated with the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, the largest integrated health care delivery system in New Jersey, with eight acute care hospitals, six nursing homes, five ambulatory care facilities three geriatric centers, a freestanding 100-bed inpatient psychiatric facility and a statewide behavioral health network.

Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, the only medical facility in the state where heart and lung transplants are performed, provides comprehensive health care services to its local communities and is a major referral and treatment center for patients throughout the northern New Jersey metropolitan area.

In addition to heart and lung transplantation, the medical center is home to the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System hotline, the state's first accredited Sleep Disorders Center, one of the largest electrophysiology programs in New Jersey, an on-site Birth Center staffed and operated by nurse midwives, a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, kidney transplantation, the largest hospital-based dental program in New Jersey and major cardiology and cardiac surgery programs. The medical center also offers the Diabetes Treatment Center, on-site MRI, a nationally recognized Pacemaker Center, bone marrow transplantation, the Children's Center, The Flo Okin Oncologic Center, The Valerie Fund Children's Center, The Center for Geriatric Health Care, and a Regional Perinatal Center.