St. Luke’s Warren Campus, formerly known as Warren Hospital, turned 100 on May 13! The historic hospital joined St. Luke’s University Health Network in 2012.  

Organized healthcare in the Phillipsburg area began on May 13, 1921, with the founding of the Maternity Hospital and Infantorium, a facility for delivering babies and treating young patients. Soon thereafter, Warren Hospital was built on Wilbur Avenue, Phillipsburg.  

Over time, the city’s population grew and diversified, and health care technology became more specialized. The hospital outgrew its walls, and a new facility on Roseberry Street was built in 1958 with federal funding, community contributions and generous support from corporate booster Ingersoll-Rand, Co. 

The hospital’s Family Medicine Residency Program welcomed its first newly minted doctors to the hospital in 1981 for training, creating a vital, local source of physicians with expertise in this specialty. Later came facility expansions and development of specialty programs, such as behavioral health units, cancer care, a vascular lab and a cardiac catheterization lab. 

As part of St. Luke’s, the Warren Campus today is stronger than ever. With over 600 employees and a medical staff of over 80 primary care and specialty physicians, it provides care to patients for 5,000 observations and admissions, 25,000 emergency department visits and 95,000 outpatient visits annually. 

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the hospital used the innovative clinical protocols adopted throughout St. Luke’s to assure that those sickened by the virus could receive all the treatment they needed at the Warren Campus, avoiding unnecessary patient transfers. And to avoid hospital admission and infection, special clinics were set up to administer monoclonal antibody therapy and COVID-19 vaccinations. 

“St. Luke’s Warren Campus greets its second century with unbridled optimism and a renewed commitment to ensuring that quality care is accessible to this community and beyond far into the future,” Hospital President Scott R. Wolfe said.