Medical Center has earned recognition for six years in a row (2016-2021)
Belleville, New Jersey – Clara Maass Medical Center, a facility of RWJBarnabas Health announced that it is a recipient of the Healthgrades 2021 Labor and Delivery Excellence Award™ and Obstetrics and Gynecology Excellence Award™.
This distinction places Clara Maass in the top 5% of all hospitals evaluated and recognizes the exceptional care provided to women during and after labor and delivery, and to women undergoing gynecologic procedures according to Healthgrades, the leading resource that connects consumers, physicians and health systems.
“Now more than ever, there is a heightened awareness around the importance of quality health care, especially for expectant mothers and their families. Women who seek care at a hospital that have achieved the Healthgrades 2021 Labor and Delivery and Obstetrics and Gynecology and Excellence Awards can have confidence in the organization’s commitment to delivering superior care.” said Brad Bowman, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Healthgrades.
“It’s quite an honor for our entire team to be recognized again this year” said Mary Ellen Clyne, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Clara Maass Medical Center. “We’ve been very intentional about our goals to ‘raise the bar’ in the overall care that we offer to our patients, and as a trusted resource in our community for health care, this year’s recognition from Healthgrades confirms that we are exceeding our patient’s expectations by offering care that our community can count on to be safe, and with improved health outcomes” Clyne said.
To help consumers evaluate and compare hospital performance, Healthgrades analyzed patient outcomes data for hospitals across 16 states that provide all-payer state data for years 2017 through 2019. Healthgrades found that the variation in hospital performance makes a significant difference in terms of clinical outcomes:
- From 2017 through 2019, if all hospitals included in the analysis performed similarly to those that received the Healthgrades Labor and Delivery Excellence Award, 138,318 patients with complications could potentially have been avoided*.
- From 2017 through 2019, patients treated in hospitals receiving the Healthgrades Labor and Delivery Excellence Award had, on average, a 41.7% lower risk of experiencing a complication while in the hospital than if they were treated in hospitals that did not receive the award*.
- Additionally, from 2017 through 2019, patients treated in hospitals receiving the Healthgrades Obstetrics and Gynecology Excellence Award had, on average, a 37% lower risk of experiencing a complication while in the hospital than if they were treated in hospitals that did not receive the Obstetrics and Gynecology Excellence Award*.
- During this time, if all hospitals in the analysis performed similarly to those that received the Healthgrades 2021 Obstetrics and Gynecology Excellence Award, 155,179 patients with complications could have potentially been avoided.*
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About Clara Maass Medical Center
Founded in 1869 as the Newark German Hospital, Clara Maass Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, is celebrating 150 years of service to the community. Conveniently located in Belleville, NJ, Clara Maass Medical Center is a 472-bed hospital that offers a complete continuum of care to residents of northern New Jersey.
Clara Maass Medical Center has completed a state-of-the-art campus expansion of its Emergency Department, Operating Rooms and Post Anesthesia Care Unit with the addition of a four-story, 87,000 square foot medical office building that features a private Intensive Care Unit, main entrance and lobby, retail pharmacy and patient registration area. Designated by the New Jersey Department of Health as a Primary Stroke Center, the Medical Center has earned national recognition in patient safety and quality from Healthgrades and The Leapfrog Group.
The Medical Center leads the state in performing advanced treatment in ophthalmology and has earned certifications in Disease-Specific Care from The Joint Commission in Acute Coronary Syndrome, Congestive Heart Failure, Elective Hip and Knee Replacement, Cardiac Rehabilitation and Advanced Certification in Palliative Care and has earned accreditation in Bariatric Surgery by the Aetna Institute of Quality program. In partnership with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey — the state's only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, Clara Maass Medical Center offers an excellent team of researchers and specialists to fight most types of cancer, providing close-to-home access to the latest treatment and clinical trials. Committed to the health and wellness of its community, the Center of Excellence for Latino Health at Clara Maass Medical Center was established to address the social determinants of health within the local Hispanic community.
The first in the country to be named for a nurse, the hospitals’ namesake, Clara Louise Maass was posthumously inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame Class of 2017.
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