Project Mission

Princeton HealthCare System will bring together compassion, clinical expertise and technology to provide outstanding care and value to the community we serve. By creating a culture of excellence among those who serve our patients, we will ensure that each patient has the best possible experience. We will create and maintain a safe, state-of-the-art teaching and healing environment that is visually pleasing, sophisticated and ecologically responsible.

Relocation Guiding Principles

The new University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro will:

• Be a top 10 percent hospital in the country for clinical outcomes
• Incorporate technology and innovation in the delivery of healthcare
• Utilize evidence-based design concepts to provide for enhanced patient safety and maintain an environment conducive to healing
• Be a top 10 percent hospital in the country for patient satisfaction
• Embrace and support patient-centered care concepts
• Optimize operational efficiency and achieve cost reductions
• Improve operating performance by 5 percent
• Move technology to patient and caregiver
• Improve patient flow and process
• Develop an integrated campus for inpatient, outpatient, physician medical and surgical services
• Be the dominant provider of selected service lines in our primary service area
• Be a responsible member of the community
• Embrace environmentally responsible design
• Adopt design flexibility -- site, buildings and system considerations
• Provide a superior environment that supports the teaching mission