Community Medical Center Earns An ‘A’ Hospital Safety Grade

Community Medical Center Earns An ‘A’ Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group

Community Medical Center awarded 'A' Hospital Safety Grade for Spring and Fall 2023.

(November 6, 2023) – Community Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, was awarded an “A” Hospital Safety Score rating by the Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit run by employers and other large purchasers of health benefits. Leapfrog assigns a letter grade to general hospitals across the country based on over 30 national performance measures reflecting errors, accidents, injuries, and infections, as well as the systems hospitals have in place to prevent harm.

Two other RWJBarnabas Health facilities also received an “A” safety grade including Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Rahway and Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus. Jersey City Medical Center, Monmouth Medical Center, RWJUH New Brunswick, and RWJUH Somerset received a “B” hospital safety score.

“I am proud to see that Community Medical Center has once again received an ‘A’ Safety Grade from the Leapfrog Group,” said Patrick Ahearn, Chief Executive Officer, Community Medical Center. “We believe every patient should have reliable access to safe, high-quality care, and I thank our staff, physicians, and volunteers for their consistent and diligent efforts to provide that to our community, every day.”

The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is the only hospital ratings program exclusively based on hospital prevention of medical errors, infections, and injuries that kill more than 500 patients a day nationally. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is peer-reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public. Grades are updated twice annually in the fall and spring.

Developed under the guidance of a national Expert Panel, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses publicly available hospital safety data to assign grades to nearly 3,000 U.S. acute-care hospitals twice per year. The Hospital Safety Grade’s methodology is peer-reviewed and fully transparent, and the results are free to the public.

“Earning an “A” Grade means Community Medical Center made a true commitment to put patients first,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. “We congratulate the leadership, Board, clinicians, staff, and volunteers that all had a role to play in this achievement.”

For more information on the Leapfrog Group and the Fall 2023 scores, please visit: HospitalSafetyGrade.org

About Community Medical Center

Community Medical Center (CMC), an RWJBarnabas Health facility, is an academic medical center dedicated to advancing the quality of life and health by providing safe, high-quality care. Located in Toms River, New Jersey, CMC is a fully accredited acute care hospital and maintains national accreditations in multiple specialty areas. Highly sophisticated services, not typically found in a community hospital, include advanced cancer, cardiac, emergency, maternity, and neurology care, as well as cutting-edge surgical care. Patients have access to advanced technology including the NuVasive PULSE navigation system, point-of-care ultrasounds, da Vinci Xi robotic surgical platform, Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted Surgery System for joint replacement procedures, and state-of-the-art imaging technology. RWJBarnabas Health and CMC, in partnership with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey - the state's only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center - brings a world-class team of researchers and specialists to fight alongside you, providing close-to-home access to the latest treatment and clinical trials. The J. Phillip Citta Regional Cancer Center at CMC features one of the most sophisticated linear accelerators used for radiation therapy, a CyberKnife for treating inoperable tumors, and holistic therapies to care for the whole person. CMC provides a broad array of health and wellness programs designed to help people achieve and maintain healthy lifestyles and optimal health.