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The new Hackensack Meridian Health & Wellness
Center in the Iselin section of Woodbridge
includes an ambulatory care center and the health
care system’s new corporate headquarters.
All images courtesy: HMH
‘A MODEL FOR
WHAT’S POSSIBLE’
HMH debuts pioneering health care center at Metropark —
and a blueprint for NJ Transit
A facility that’s meant to be a
model of inclusive, convenient
access to health care is also
a template for the type of transit-
oriented development that is critical
to New Jersey’s future.
Just ask the many business leaders
and public officials who were on
hand in late April as Hackensack
Meridian Health unveiled its new
240,000-square-foot medical and
corporate office building in the
Metropark section of Woodbridge.
The $200 million project has not only
centralized primary and specialty
By Joshua Burd
care for patients who rely on mass
transit — in a location directly next
to NJ Transit’s second-busiest train
station — but it has transformed
what was the longtime site of a one-
dimensional surface parking lot.
CEO. “That is the right framing for
the 21st century. We can’t think of a
better example at New Jersey Transit
for what this agency and this state is
capable of, by pointing to this very
project.”
“Today, we have
evolved from a
park-and-ride
facility to a
live, heal and
connect-and-
ride facility,”
said Kris Kolluri,
NJ Transit’s
The facility’s mission and purpose
are central to its appeal — and
to the support it enjoys across all
levels of government. Developed by
DOR, a partnership of the Dinallo
family, Onyx Equities and Russo
Development, the Hackensack
Meridian Health & Wellness Center
Kris Kolluri
has everything from advanced
imaging, urgent care, primary
care and surgical specialties to
retail pharmacy, physical therapy,
occupational therapy, rehabilitation
and phlebotomy, among many others
that will be available at extended
hours and under one roof near Route
27 and Wood Avenue South.
It also serves as the health care
system’s new headquarters,
allowing it to consolidate corporate
employees previously spread across
several office buildings.
“From a health care perspective,