Work at the Hospital

Of course you don’t have to be a doctor or a nurse to work there. For instance, there are jobs in more than 60 categories—from accounting to food service to social work—at

Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in the South Ward. “I like to think of hospitals as cities,” says Zach Lipner, VP and Chief Human Resources Officer at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, which is part of the RWJBarnabas Health network. “Cities require a variety of occupations to keep things running and to support their infrastructure. Hospitals are no different.”

RWJBarnabas Health conducts job training and placement for jobs both inside the medical facilities and outside as part of Mayor Ras Baraka’s Newark 2020 initiative, which endeavors to employ 2,020 Newarkers with full-time, living wage jobs by the year 2020. Last year, RWJBH president and CEO Barry H. Ostrowsky pledged publicly that the healthcare system would hire 350 Newarkers by 2020.