Our Facilities

Fitness Center
70 James Street, Edison

The Health & Fitness Center (HFC) at JFK Medical Center is designed to provide an environment for exercise and activity for both the well-bodied and the disabled. This facility makes the transition from more rigorous outpatient therapy programs to a new lifestyle that incorporates exercise and healthful habits nearly seamless. The specialization offered at the center focuses on helping those not accustomed to activity develop safe, unthreatening and effective exercise routines. For its inventive approach to exercise and activity, the Health & Fitness Center at JFK Medical Center was acknowledged as a NOVA -7 award-winning program.

Boasting over 6,000 square feet of space, the HFC offers Olympic weights, some 14 treadmills, stair steppers, upright and recumbent bicycles, Nusteps, Nordic Tracks, rowing machines, and a wide variety of selectorized resistive machines and free weights. When joining the program, clients are evaluated and given a body composition analysis. Clients are then set up with a regimen that is designed to help each individual meet their goals in a sensible way. A registered dietitian is also on staff at the HFC and is available for nutritional counseling. Sports and fitness nutrition and weight loss are the specialties of this center.

The Health and Fitness Center also offers behavioral counseling sessions and other health and wellness programs including:

stress management
relaxation and medical hypnosis
smoking cessation
counseling for weight loss
Tai Chi
dance aerobics for seniors
Positively Pregnant

The HFC provides a variety of seminars on a variety of health-related topics throughout the year.

Membership fees are reasonable and month-by-month membership arrangements can be made. For more information or to join the Health & Fitness Center at JFK Medical Center, call (732) 632-1610.

Directions:

From New York or Newark: Take the New Jersey Turnpike South to Exit 11. Pick up the Garden State Parkway North to Exit 131, making a right off the exit (Route 27). At the fourth light, James Street, make a right and the Health and Fitness Center is a short distance on the right.

Or, if you take the Garden State Parkway South to Exit 131, continue as above, except that you will enter Route 27 past the first traffic light.

From Philadelphia: Take the New Jersey Turnpike North to Exit 10 leading to Route 287 to Route 1 North. At the Menlo Park Mall, exit on the right, going around a jughandle onto Parsonage Road. Continue straight past the mall and underpass to a traffic light at Route 27 (landmarks are Rite Aid on the left and Dunkin' Donuts on the right). Parsonage Road becomes James Street and the Health and Fitness Center is a short distance on the right.