RWJBarnabas Health Athletic Performance Center
The RWJBarnabas Health Athletic Performance Center at Rutgers University signals a partnership between Rutgers and RWJBarnabas Health to create a comprehensive sports medicine program to serve Rutgers athletes, students and communities throughout New Jersey. Through this partnership, RWJBarnabas Health will become the exclusive health care provider for Rutgers Athletics, while creating a best-in-class sports medicine program that can be expanded across the state.
Rutgers University President Robert Barchi and RWJBarnabas Health President and CEO Barry H. Ostrowsky joined university, RWJBarnabas Health, state and community officials to break ground on the 295,000-square-foot, four-story sports facility and parking deck located adjacent to the Rutgers Athletics Center on Nov. 1, 2016. The RWJBarnabas Health Athletic Performance Center also will be the headquarters for a world-class sports medicine program. RWJBarnabas Health will develop and manage the program, which will provide Rutgers' 625 NCAA Division I intercollegiate athletes with an extensive array of health care services and pursue advances in sports medicine.
The RWJBarnabas Health Athletic Performance Center, slated for completion in 2019, will be built on the site of the existing parking lot southwest of the RAC and northwest of the Rutgers Business School. The RWJBarnabas Health sports medicine program will be comprised of athletic trainers, physical therapists, sports medicine physicians, orthopedic surgeons, sports psychologists, psychiatrists and other behavioral health specialists, sports performance specialists and nutritional experts.
The RWJBarnabas Health sports medicine center will be accessible to the entire Rutgers community and the public, in addition to Rutgers athletes.
In addition to the sports medicine center, the building will provide a state-of-the-art practice facility for men's and women's basketball, wrestling and gymnastics.
The sports medicine program also will aim to advance academic opportunities in sports-medicine fields. Affiliated physicians and practitioners will be able to hone sports medicine skills in a Big Ten practice setting, whether in the renovated Hale Center, RWJBarnabas Health Athletic Performance Center or on the sidelines at athletics practices and games.
