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1. Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center/RWJ Barnabas Health

Website: https://www.rwjbh.org/saint-barnabas-medical-center/about/lgbtq-services 

About: Livingston’s own Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center (formerly Saint Barnabas Medical Center) has been ranked a healthcare leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Healthcare Equality Index. The center maintains a robust diversity equity inclusion program and employs numerous LGBTQIA+ health providers.

RWJBarnabas healthcare also maintains the PROUD Gender Center of New Jersey at 181 Somerset St., 2nd Floor New Brunswick, NJ 08901. 

Services available include:

• Comprehensive primary care
• Gender-affirming surgery including transfeminine and transmasculine top surgery
• Gender-affirming bottom surgery for transmen
• Facial feminization and facial masculinization surgery
• Hormone therapy/endocrinology
• Gynecology/urology
• Otolaryngology/vocal training
• Community outreach, education and training
• Advocacy resources
• Information and referral to behavioral and mental health support services
• Support services

2. Morristown Medical Center / Atlantic Health

Website: https://www.atlantichealth.org/about-us/stay-connected/news/press-releases/2016/march16-lgbt.html 

About: Morristown Medical Center, and affiliates Overlook Medical Center, Newton Medical Center, and Goryeb Children’s Hospital have been recognized by the Human Rights Campaign’s Healthcare Equality Index as Leaders in LGBT Healthcare Equality.

Programs Atlantic health has run include but are not limited to:

• Establishing support groups and educational classes for vulnerable populations – such as people living with HIV and AIDS, and non-English speaking families who are expecting children
• Revising patient visitation policies to allow for more inclusion and respect for all families and visitors
• Expanding pastoral and spiritual care for patients of all faith communities
• Translating “Patient Rights," patient forms and medical records into Spanish and other languages
• Enhancing interpretation of languages other than English through new technologies
• Improving meal services to accommodate diverse dietary and nutritional preferences

See also: https://www.atlantichealth.org/about-us/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html 

3. Rutgers NJMS - Transgender Health

Website: https://njms.rutgers.edu/centers_institutes/trans_health/services.php 

About: “The Rutgers Center for Transgender Health is a multidisciplinary center that provides a full spectrum of medical and surgical care for people of the transgender and gender non-binary (TGNB) experience. Our team of expert health professionals offer a compassionate, coordinated approach to gender affirmation.”

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