New Jersey healthcare facilities continue to impress in recent quality reports.
"There’s plenty of reason to feel good about the state of your healthcare here in New Jersey," NJHA President and CEO Betsy Ryan writes in a new blog post.
Ryan cited two reports released last week:
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported that an estimated 87,000 fewer patients died in hospitals and nearly $20 billion in healthcare costs were saved as a result of a reduction in hospital-acquired conditions from 2010 to 2014. During this same period, New Jersey hospitals, working with NJHA under the Partnership for Patients-NJ initiative, achieved measurable reductions in hospital-acquired conditions that averted 13,730 cases of patient harm and achieved $120 million in healthcare cost savings.
- New Jersey has an impressive four hospitals on the Leapfrog Group’s list of the Top Hospitals of 2015 list. Only 98 of the 1,600 U.S. hospitals that submit data to Leapfrog make the list.
"How impressive is New Jersey’s showing? Consider that our neighbors in New York didn’t have any hospitals on the list, and Pennsylvania had one," said Ryan. "Congratulations to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Virtua Marlton and Virtua Voorhees."
Ryan also notes earlier quality reports that show New Jersey hospitals rank 5th best nationwide in Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Score, and Garden State nursing home exceed the national average with 75 percent scoring three stars or more on the national Nursing Home Compare’s 5-star rating system.
Click here to read Ryan’s Healthcare Matters blog.
