RWJBarnabas Health facilities recognized with Get With The Guidelines awards for treatment.
RWJBarnabas Health facilities recognized with Get With The Guidelines awards for treatment of stroke and heart failure patients
RWJBarnabas Health announced several of its facilities have been recognized by The American Heart Association (AHA)/American Stroke Association for cardiac and stroke care earning a spot on the 2020 Get With The Guidelines awards list in the stroke, heart failure and resuscitation categories.
The awards recognize each hospitals’ commitment to ensuring stroke and heart failure patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.
Here are N.J.’s safest hospitals. See how yours fared in new national report.
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, N.J. is the only hospital in the state to receive straight-A s in the Leapfrog safety report card since the surveys began in 2012.
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New Jersey hospitals rank 17th best in the nation for safety, a drop from eighth place a year ago and a potentially troubling sign as the pandemic continues to make unrelenting demands on healthcare professionals, according to the latest Leapfrog Hospital Safety report card.
Six hospitals went up a grade while 15 hospitals went down a grade, according to an analysis by the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, a consumer, research nonprofit that jointly releases the report with Leapfrog.
By M.E. CAGNASSOLA
Credits: TAPinto Illustration
December 15, 2020 at 12:41 AM
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Children s Hospital of New Jersey and Saint Michael s Medical Center both received an A for the fall 2020 patient safety report card from the Leapfrog Group.
Both Newark-based hospitals received As for the fifth consecutive period. University Hospital, which had received a D in the last report, was not graded by the independent national watchdog organization.
Leapfrog said University Hospital s responses to its hospital survey are undergoing Leapfrog’s standard data verification process. As a result, the hospital was not graded this fall, a spokesman for the organization said.
Crossroads of a plague
The worst pandemic in a century has ravaged Newark and its Black community. It was a tragedy decades in the making.
Updated on Dec 11, 2020;
Published on Dec 10, 2020
Newark has suffered the most COVID-19 deaths and cases in New Jersey. Photo by Andre Malok | NJ Advance Media
The haunting stare was frozen on his daughter’s face.
Walter Andrews found her in the middle of the night, dazed and unseeing as she rocked back and forth on his living room floor.
“Tasha! Tasha!” he said in a loud whisper. But she merely groaned, continuing to gaze ahead vacantly.