Best Doctors, Best Hospitals, High Quality, Awards, and Honors
What Does Quality Mean to You?
As one of the premier academic medical centers in the northeast, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital is committed to a bold new vision of healthcare, and to the people, partnerships and progressive technologies that bring this vision to life.
But don't take our word for it—our leadership in providing the finest state-of-the-art care for our patients has been widely recognized in numerous national and regional rankings for quality, patients safety, physician and nursing excellence.
So what does this mean for you? For the highest quality care, the most respected doctors and nurses, and today’s most advanced medicine, the nation’s best is right here.
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The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital at RWJUH patient satisfaction scores are consistently in the 99th percentile. |
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Out of more than 5,400 hospitals across America, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital was ranked in the top 30 for heart care according to U.S. News & World Report's 2007 ranking of America's Best Hospitals. At number 26 in the nation, this ranking is the best of any hospital in New Jersey on the U.S. News & World Report list.
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital joins the list of the nation's best ranked cancer centers by the American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer after having earned its highest cancer care performance rating, "Approval with Commendation," following a stringent on-site performance evaluation.
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital was ranked as one of the nation’s Top Hospitals for quality and safety, according to a survey conducted by the Leapfrog Group.
RWJUH doctors once again rank in both the New York Magazine and New Jersey Monthly "Best Doctors" 2006 issues.
RWJUH was ranked by Harvard researchers as the 6th best hospital in the nation in quality of care in a study commissioned by The Commonwealth Fund.
Our nurses are nationally recognized for nursing excellence. We have been awarded the prestigious Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence for 10 consecutive years.
RWJUH was the only hospital in the state to rank in the top ten percent for both heart attack and pneumonia treatment two years in a row, according to the second annual state report on hospital quality issued by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services.
RWJUH exceeded State and National benchmarks for patient care quality in treatment of heart attack, pneumonia and heart failure on Hospital Compare, a federal consumer web site.
RWJUH patient satisfaction scores are consistently above the 90th percentile.
RWJUH is the only JCAHO-certified stroke center in Middlesex County, and one of only 13 in New Jersey. The RWJUH stroke program was awarded JCAHO’s Gold Seal of Approval™.
RWJUH received the Press Ganey 2005 Compass Award in Ambulatory Surgery for greatest improvement in overall patient satisfaction scores over the past two years.
RWJUH is the first hospital in New Jersey to perform the mini-Maze procedure - a minimally invasive microwave ablation surgery to treat atrial fibrillation.
RWJUH received the Community Outreach Award from the New Jersey Hospital Association for the Community Health Promotion Program cancer screening efforts.
RWJUH is one of few sites in the nation selected to participate in the trial of the GORE TAG thoracic endoprosthesis, a new minimally invasive treatment option for repair of thoracic aortic aneurysms.
RWJUH physicians treat brain aneurysms with a minimally invasive technique, rather than open surgery, using a catheter to deliver a special stent to the blood vessel and a coil to clot off the aneurysm.
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