Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, medical school in New Jersey formerly known as Seton Hall University School of Medicine
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine is a medical school in Nutley that prepares students for the medical profession. The facility is housed in the former headquarters of pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche and accommodates about 250 medical students in modern classrooms, laboratories, and learning spaces.
The school opened in 2018 as the first new private medical school in New Jersey in many years. The building was formerly the headquarters of Roche, which operated in Nutley with about 10,000 employees until 2012, before the site was transformed into an educational facility through extensive renovation.
The school carries the name of its parent organization Hackensack Meridian, connecting medical education to the local healthcare system. Visitors notice modern classrooms and laboratories where future doctors train, while the buildings retain subtle traces of their industrial past.
The campus is located on a repurposed pharmaceutical site and equipped with modern facilities accessible to visitors. The school shares skybridge connections with Seton Hall University's School of Nursing and School of Health and Medical Sciences, allowing easy access to adjacent academic areas.
The renovation of the former Roche factory cost about 70 million dollars and employed around 630 workers over several years. The project received the New Good Neighbor Award in 2020 for its role in creating jobs and transforming a vacant industrial site into a center for education and innovation.
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