BY PATRICIA ALEX AND JOHN REITMEYER, STAFF WRITERS, The Record

The state’s sprawling health sciences university will be completely reorganized under a plan endorsed by Governor Christie Wednesday that also calls for significant changes for Rutgers University, which will gain a medical school in New Brunswick.

RECORD FILE PHOTOS Christie said UMDNJ - with eight schools, three campuses, and the biggest charity care hospital in the state - had become “too big, impossible to manage.”
RECORD FILE PHOTOS Christie said UMDNJ - with eight schools, three campuses, and the biggest charity care hospital in the state - had become “too big, impossible to manage.”

Components of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, will be divided up between Rutgers and Rowan universities in central and south Jersey.

The remaining campus and health care facilities in Newark will be renamed the New Jersey Health Sciences University, under the plan devised by a gubernatorial advisory committee and released publicly on Wednesday.

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