Healthgrades: Overlook Medical Center services among 100 Best

SUMMIT, NJ– OCTOBER 23, 2018 –Atlantic Health System’s Overlook Medical Center ranked among the top hospitals in the nation in a wide variety of specialties and services, according to a report released today by Healthgrades, the leading online resource for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.

Healthgrades’ 2019 Report to the Nation, released today, evaluates nearly 4,500 hospitals nationwide in 32 of the most common inpatient procedures and conditions. The report further highlighted Overlook’s excellence in the areas of neuroscience and surgery, which have been among the hospital’s hallmark services.

Among other recognitions, Overlook Medical Center was named one of:

• America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Stroke Care for six years in a row (2014-2019)

“The consistent focus on quality and patient outcomes, driven by the collaboration of our dedicated care teams, has helped truly elevate Overlook to be the recognized leader in health care for our region,” said Alan Lieber, president of Overlook Medical Center. “Our communities can again rely on these ratings as assurance when seeking our excellent patient care.”

Overlook Medical Center was named in the top five percent of hospitals in the nation in neurosciences, cranial neurosurgery, treatment of stroke, general surgery, critical care and bariatric surgery. Healthgrades also ranked Overlook in the top 10 percent of hospitals in the nation for overall GI services.

Overlook Medical Center was also recognized by Healthgrades with Five Stars – the highest rating, which shows that a hospital’s actual performance is statistically significantly better than expected –-highlighting Overlook’s neuroscience services, such as cranial neurosurgery and treatment of stroke.

Five-star ratings also highlighted Overlook’s gastrointestinal services, including surgeries for esophageal/stomach, small intestine, colorectal, gall bladder removal as well as treatment of bowel obstruction. Overlook also received Five Stars for Overall Bariatric surgery.

“Our medical and clinical teams continue to raise the bar for patient safety, clinical excellence, and positive patient outcomes each day and night, ensuring our patients receive exceptional, coordinated care from a multi-specialist team at each of our campuses,” said Jan Schwarz-Miller, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical and Academic Officer for Atlantic Health System.

Atlantic Health System’s Morristown Medical Center was also named among the top five percent of hospitals in the nation for overall cardiac services, cardiac surgery, and cardiology services, overall orthopedic services, joint replacement, overall GI services, GI medical treatment, bariatric surgery, and among the top 10 percent of hospitals in the nation for critical care.

Five-star honors for Morristown Medical Center highlighted its cardiac services such as coronary bypass, valve surgery, coronary intervention and treatment for heart attack and heart failure, and orthopedic services such as total knee and total hip replacements, hip fracture treatment and spinal fusion.

Atlantic Health System’s Newton Medical Center was recognized among the top 10 percent in the nation for treatment of stroke, as well as received five-star ratings for treatment of the following conditions – heart failure, respiratory failure and sepsis.

“With so many choices for care, consumers often find that their health journey can be difficult to navigate,” said Brad Bowman, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Healthgrades. “Information about hospital quality is helpful as they make decisions for their health, and Atlantic Health System’s Morristown Medical Center and Overlook Medical Center have distinguished themselves as exceptional organizations.”

The complete Healthgrades 2019 Report to the Nation, and recognitions for all of Atlantic Health System’s hospitals, is available at www.healthgrades.com/quality/.

About the 2019 Report to the Nation

The Healthgrades 2019 Report to the Nation found that clinical performance continues to differ dramatically between hospitals regionally and nationally.

For its analysis, Healthgrades evaluated approximately 45 million Medicare inpatient records for almost 4,500 short-term acute care hospitals nationwide to assess hospital performance in 32 common conditions and procedures, and evaluated comparative outcomes in appendectomy and bariatric surgery using all-payer data provided by 15 states and the District of Columbia.

Healthgrades recognizes a hospital’s quality achievements for cohort-specific performance, specialty area performance, and overall clinical quality. Individual procedure or condition cohorts are designated as five-star (statistically significantly better than expected), three-star (not statistically different from expected) and one-star (statistically significantly worse than expected) categories.

About Atlantic Health System

Atlantic Health System, headquartered in Morristown, N.J., is an integrated health care delivery system powered by a workforce of more than 16,500 team members and 4,800 affiliated physicians dedicated to building healthier communities. The system serves a population of 5 million, with more than 400 sites of care, including six hospitals: Morristown Medical Center, Overlook Medical Center, Newton Medical Center, Chilton Medical Center, Hackettstown Medical Center and Goryeb Children’s Hospital.

Atlantic Health System provides care for the full continuum of health care needs including 11 urgent care centers, Atlantic Rehabilitation and Atlantic Home Care and Hospice. Facilitating the connection between these services on both land and air is the transportation fleet of Atlantic Mobile Health.

In addition to the employed workforce, Atlantic Alliance, a Clinically Integrated Network, represents more than 2,500 health care providers throughout northern and central NJ. Atlantic Health System leads the Healthcare Transformation Consortium, a partnership of six regional hospitals and health systems dedicated to improving access and affordability, and is a founding member of both the PIER Consortium – Partners in Innovation, Education, and Research – a streamlined clinical trial system that will expand access to groundbreaking research across six health systems in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and AllSpire Health Partners, a consortium of five leading health care organizations dedicated to serving patients, families and communities in New Jersey, New York, Maryland and Pennsylvania.

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