Located just 8 miles west of Manhattan, Hackensack University Medical Center is a nonprofit teaching and research hospital that is the largest provider of healthcare services in the state of New Jersey with 775 inpatient beds. It is a Level-1 Emergency trauma center that sees over 111,000 patients per year and admits 1,283 trauma patients per year from the ED. An additional 34,000 patients visit the Pediatric Emergency Department annually. It is also a Stroke Center and a STEMI catheterization center with full cardiothoracic surgical capabilities. US News and World Report ranked Hackensack University Medical Center #1 overall in the state of New Jersey and #4 out of 184 hospitals in the New York metropolitan area in its most recent July 2012 rankings. Hackensack University Medical Center has been named one of America's 50 Best Hospitals by HealthGrades for six years in a row placing it in the top 1% nationally. Our department was recently named one of only 2 New York City metro-area EDs to receive the HealthGrades EM Excellence award recognizing the quality of our ED care. You will also see our EM physicians on the sidelines of the NY Giants football games since our institu...tion is the official hospital for the NY Giants. The Hackensack University Medical Center Post Graduate Year 2 (PGY2) Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Residency Program is an ASHP accredited 12-month program.