Remembering Dr. Bob: Robert Zufall, MD, Obituary
“We all have sins we’d rather not confess But if there were a god I’m sure he’d bless Our efforts to increase human happiness” Robert B Zufall Robert Bunger Zufall, MD, of Denville and formerly of Mountain Lakes, who is best known for founding the community health center Zufall Health with his wife, Kathryn, passed away peacefully at Saint Clare’s Hospital in Denville on March 5, 2024. Zufall was born in Middletown, NY on June...
What Health Care Should Be Like: Zufall in the New York Times, 1992
In a world in which going to the doctor can be difficult or scary, especially for people with limited resources, Zufall Health has long represented what health care should be like: compassionate, community-oriented, and available to everyone. Zufall started as a small, volunteer-powered clinic inside St. John’s Episcopal Church in Dover. Here, founders Robert Zufall, MD (“Dr. Bob”), and his wife, Kathryn (“Kay”) created a space where underserved people and families,...
What We Can Learn from Dr. Bob’s 1991 Letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association
In 1991, Zufall Health—then known as the Dover Community Clinic—was a new organization with limited resources. Urologist Robert Zufall, M.D. (“Dr. Bob”), and his wife and medical business assistant, Kathryn (“Kay”), founded the small, one-night-a-week clinic after retiring from their nearby private practice. The same year, Dr. Bob wrote about the Dover Community Clinic in a letter to the editor of the Journal of the American Medication Association (JAMA), a highly...