A CAVALCADE OF AWARDS It would be difficult to find space to list every award Clara Maass Medical Center has received in the past quarter century. Access to greater resources brought about by the mergers has meant construction of new facilities and the acquisition of new medical equipment, enabling the hospital to offer far more services to the community it serves. Here are just some of the awards the medical center has received in recent years:
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2005
• Named a Top Hospital by Thomson Reuters (Top 100 Hospital: Performance Improvement Leader) • Only hospital in Essex and Hudson counties to achieve a top 25 percent ranking for care delivery in all three lifethreatening conditions—heart failure care, heart attack care and pneumonia care—according to data collected and published by the U.S. Department of Health and Senior Services • Selected by Healthcare Quality Strategies, Inc. (HQSI) as a Best Practice for Smoking Cessation among Congestive Heart Failure Patients • Social Services/Case Management received 2005 Starfish Award from Passaic County Foster and Adoptive Family Services
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2006
• Once again named a Top Hospital by Thomson Reuters (Top 100 Hospital: Performance Improvement Leader) • Ranked among the top hospitals in the state for heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia care by the Department of Health and Senior Services NJ Report Card • Named a Solucient 100 Top Hospital: Performance Improvement Award • Received a Healthgrades General Surgery Excellence Award • Received Healthgrades Five Stars for Stroke, Pulmonary (communityacquired pneumonia, critical care), Sepsis, Gastroenterology Procedures and Surgeries, and Orthopedics (Hip Fracture) Care
2007
• Received a Healthgrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence • Named Thomson Reuters Top 100 Hospital for Performance Improvement
2011
• Received two Grade A scores in Hospital Safety from The Leapfrog Group • Named among the Top 100 hospitals nationwide—one of only three hospitals in NJ to attain the distinction—by Thomson Reuters • Earned Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award
2012
• Two Grade A scores in Hospital Safety from The Leapfrog Group • Earned Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award
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