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UPDATED: Princeton Hosptal has Power

After losing losing power on Monday, the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro is up and running and taking emergencies.

After losing power Monday, the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro is back online and is receiving emergency patients. On Monday, power was lost and back up generators were down, according to the Princeton Township Police Department. The hospital was sending people to Capital Health in Hopewell.

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Route 1 Hospital Move "Virtually Flawless," CEO Says

In the span of eight hours, more than one hundred patients were relocated, while one hospital closed and another one opened for business.

As Erica Markee was wheeled through the halls of Princeton Hospital on Tuesday, nurses lined her route, clapping and cheering. Markee, of Lawrenceville, who delivered son Hayden Samuel Markee via C-section on Monday, was the last patient to leave the hospital on Witherspoon Street and be taken by ambulance to the new hospital- University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro- off of Route 1. “It’s very emotional,” Hospital President and CEO Barry Rabner said. "You know we’ve been (in Princeton) for 93 years and there are people who have been working here for 20 years, 30 years, one for 56 years. It’s not without its sadness.” Rabner and others hospital officials were on hand to greet patients as they arrived via ambulance at the new $…

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New Route 1 Hospital Ready for Opening Day

The University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro held a ribbon cutting and open house on Saturday.

Nearly a decade after discussions first began about a new and expanded hospital, officials cut the ribbon at the new University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro on Saturday. “Welcome to your new hospital,” Hospital President and CEO Barry Rabner told members of the public came for a day of celebration and a sneak peek at the new $445 million hospital complex off Route 1 in Plainsboro. “Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to serve you in the past and hope to do our best to serve you in the future,” Rabner said. The new hospital will officially open on Tuesday, May 22, the same day doors will close at the hospital on Witherspoon Street in Princeton. Construction began at the 171-acre property, located between Scudders …

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