Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Ranked Among Nation’s Top 15 Major Teaching Hospitals

New National Award, Only Hospital in NJ/NY to Make List

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

New Brunswick, NJ – Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital has received the 2006 Solucient 100 Top Hospitals®: National Benchmarks for Success Award and is listed among the nation’s top 15 major teaching hospitals. The only hospital in New Jersey or New York to be included on the list of the nation’s Top 100 Hospitals, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital was selected based on performance in four areas: quality, finances, operations and growth.

“We’re honored to be named as one of the nation’s Top 100 Hospitals, and I congratulate our dedicated physicians, nurses, employees and staff,” said Stephen K. Jones, interim president and CEO of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. “But the real reward for our hard work is judged by our patients who can be assured that Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital continues to provide the highest quality care, safest environment, the best physicians and nurses, and access to the latest research and most advanced technology each and every day.”

Evanston, Illinois-based Solucient evaluates hospitals annually, recognizing those, like RWJUH, that are helping to set hospital-wide national standards in a variety of areas, including clinical outcomes, patient safety, financial performance, efficiency and patient volume. The purpose of the study is to identify the performance standards being set by leading hospitals and provide these standards to other hospitals to help them improve their performance. All hospitals are measured using publicly available data, including data from CMS/Medicare.

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital is a 600-bed academic medical center which serves as the principal hospital of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

More information on this study and other 100 Top Hospitals research is available at www.100tophospitals.com.

About Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

Selected as one of three hospitals nationwide to offer the world's first self-contained implantable artificial heart and named by Solucient as one of America’s top 15 teaching hospitals, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital is a 600-bed academic medical center and the principal hospital of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ.

Robert Wood Johnson is an innovative leader in advancing state-of-the-art care in medicine. Its Centers of Excellence include cardiovascular care from minimally invasive heart surgery to transplantation, cancer care and women's and children's care including The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. The hospital is also a Level 1 Trauma Center and serves as a national resource in its ground-breaking approaches to emergency preparedness.

The hospital has earned significant national recognition for clinical quality and patient safety. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital was ranked number 26 in the nation for heart care according to U.S.News & World Report’s 2007 ranking of “America’s Best Hospitals,” as well as best in the state for Respiratory Disorders (#26) and Urology (#50), and among the nation’s best for Geriatrics (#40). The American College of Surgeons' Commission on Cancer has rated Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital among the nation's best comprehensive cancer centers. The Leapfrog Group rated Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital as one of the 50 exceptional U.S. hospitals, as published in Consumers Digest magazine. Harvard University researchers, in a study commissioned by The Commonwealth Fund, identified Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital as one of the top 10 hospitals in the nation for clinical quality. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital is also a recipient of the prestigious Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence for 10 consecutive years.

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