Most parents, when asked the question, "What do you want most for your children?" would reply, "I want them to be healthy and happy." While Hunterdon Healthcare System can't promise the happiness of the next generation, we are working intelligently and diligently to provide the leading-edge medicine that will create successively healthier generations to come.

In this annual report, we have highlighted a few of the more than 300 talented physicians here at Hunterdon Medical Center who are leading the way in their disciplines. Their stories represent our commitment to your care throughout a lifetime.

We are finding new ways to manage chronic disease and to prevent debilitating illness with a patient-care model that focuses on prevention, early intervention and multidisciplinary care.

The doctors in this report understand the importance of your participation in your own healthcare. In fact, our healthcare system is designed with that in mind. Our programs and services are designed to educate and to support you while you are working in tandem with our medical staff to be healthy, to stay healthy and to have the best quality of life possible.

Consider this publication our "investment report" to you, our donors. We are serious about our responsibility to let you know how your investment to Hunterdon Healthcare is making an impact now and how we're preparing for the future. Your support has been critical in making Hunterdon Healthcare System a model for excellence in community care. We promise to make sure that we continue to deliver the very best healthcare to our community both now and in the future. We call it "The Hunterdon Promise."

G. Meredith Betz
Executive Vice President