Fertility Clinic in Jersey City, NJ
Conveniently located at One Journal Square Plaza, just steps from the PATH station, Damien Fertility Partners makes fertility care accessible for your busy schedule. We know that treatment involves frequent monitoring, such as bloodwork and ultrasounds, so our Jersey City office is designed to fit seamlessly into your daily life.
We provide comprehensive consultations, evaluations, and cycle monitoring, ensuring you have the support you need. For detailed information on our procedures, please visit our fertility treatments page.
Fertility Care in Jersey City and Hudson County
The full address is One Journal Square Plaza, Suite 301-A. Patients come from Downtown Jersey City, the Heights, Hoboken, Bayonne, and from across the river in New York, so an early slot can fit around a city schedule.
The practice has been around for a while. It opened in 1989 as East Coast IVF, one of the first IVF practices in Monmouth and Ocean County, and has treated New Jersey patients since. The Jersey City office is the same group, closer in, so Hudson County patients don’t have to drive to Shrewsbury for everything.
You start by filling out the appointment request online, and the office follows up to book your first visit.
Fertility Services at the Jersey City Office
What you start with depends on your test results, your age, and what you’ve already tried. The first visit is an evaluation, not a sales pitch. That usually means baseline bloodwork, an ultrasound, and a semen analysis when there’s a male partner, enough to see what you’re working with before anyone recommends anything.
The practice provides:
- Ovulation induction and monitoring, when you need help timing or producing healthy eggs
- Intrauterine insemination, often a first step for mild factors, single parents, or same-sex couples
- In vitro fertilization with fresh or frozen embryo transfer
- Donor egg and donor sperm programs
- Genetic testing of embryos before transfer, to check for chromosomal differences
- Egg and embryo freezing, for medical reasons or personal ones
- Gestational carrier coordination, plus minimally invasive gynecologic surgery done in-house
Consultations and monitoring happen in Jersey City. Anything that needs the embryology lab happens in Shrewsbury. If you want to read up first, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine explains each of these in plain English.
A Lab Built Around Continuous Embryo Monitoring
The embryology lab is the part of a clinic patients almost never see, and it’s where a lot of an IVF cycle is decided. Damien Fertility Partners uses CHLOE by Fairtility, an artificial intelligence system that reads time-lapse images of the embryos from inside the incubator. They can be watched as they grow without being lifted out into changing temperature and air, and you get a visual record of how they developed.
Every manual check outside the incubator shifts conditions a little. Continuous imaging cuts out most of those interruptions and gives the embryology team more to go on when they pick which embryo to transfer. It can also flag embryos that divide abnormally early on, the kind of thing a single daily check can miss.
The lab is run by Laboratory Director Frank Barnes, PhD, HCLD. It’s accredited by the College of American Pathologists with zero deficiencies and meets FDA and New Jersey Department of Health standards. Damien Fertility Partners is a member of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology and reports its results under SART Clinic ID 2518.
The lab is at the Shrewsbury office, so that’s where your egg retrieval and transfer take place. Everything before that, the consults and the monitoring, you do in Jersey City.
One Doctor, Start to Finish
A common complaint in fertility care is getting passed between providers and retelling your history every time. That doesn’t happen here. One physician runs your cycle from the first consultation through every decision in it.
The routine monitoring in between, the bloodwork and ultrasounds that track how things are going, may be done by nurse practitioners Gloria Lopez or Liz Piercy, both AANP-certified family nurse practitioners. Your egg retrieval and embryo transfer are always done by your physician. That continuity is the whole idea behind the name.
Here’s who you’d be working with. Dr. Miguel Damien, the Medical Director and founder, is a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist who did his residency and fellowship at Harvard and has been named a Castle Connolly Top Doctor in the New York metro area.
Dr. Barry Perlman, also a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist, focuses on polycystic ovary syndrome and ovarian aging and sees patients by video as well as in person, an easier option if you’re commuting. Dr. Nina Seigelstein is a board-certified OB/GYN and minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon, so procedures many clinics send elsewhere are done within the practice.
The reviews back it up. Damien Fertility Partners holds a 4.9 out of 5 rating on FertilityIQ across 26 verified reviews. That’s the top 8% of fertility practices in the country.
Inclusive, Bilingual Care in Hudson County
Hudson County is one of the most diverse places in the country, and the practice treats it that way. Care is offered in English and Spanish, Dr. Damien is fluent in Spanish, and the full site is available en español. No one should have to bring a friend along to translate a conversation this personal.
People come to fertility care from all kinds of starting points. LGBTQ+ family building is part of the regular practice, with reciprocal IVF for female couples and gestational carrier guidance for male couples, along with support for single parents by choice. The practice also doesn’t set BMI limits on who can start care, a barrier that turns people away elsewhere.
Money is its own stress on top of the rest. Damien Fertility Partners takes most major insurance plans and works through financing and medication assistance with you, instead of posting one sticker price that fits nobody. Your coverage gets checked before treatment starts, so there are fewer surprises later.
If Jersey City is the right office for you, the How to Begin page walks you through the first appointment and the short intake form. Start there and the team sets up your consultation with the doctor who stays with you the rest of the way.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a fertility clinic near me in Jersey City?
Damien Fertility Partners runs a fertility clinic in Jersey City at One Journal Square Plaza, Suite 301-A, serving all of Hudson County. Consultations, evaluations, and cycle monitoring happen there, a short walk from the Journal Square PATH.
What can I do at the Jersey City office, and what happens at Shrewsbury?
The Jersey City office handles consultations, fertility evaluations, and the monitoring visits that track your cycle. Egg retrievals and embryo transfers are done at the Shrewsbury office, where the embryology lab is. Your physician stays with you across both.
Does Damien Fertility Partners offer care in Spanish?
Damien Fertility Partners provides care in English and Spanish, and Dr. Miguel Damien is fluent in Spanish. The full website is in Spanish too, so you can go through diagnosis and treatment without switching languages.
Can I meet with a fertility doctor virtually?
Dr. Barry Perlman sees patients by video as well as in person. That helps if you commute into New York or have trouble getting to weekday appointments, and a video visit is often a practical way to start before coming in.
Where can I check the clinic’s IVF success rates?
Damien Fertility Partners reports its outcomes to SART under Clinic ID 2518, and those national figures are published in the SART registry. You can also ask the team to walk you through what the numbers mean for your own situation at a consultation.