RARITAN BAY MEDICAL CENTER - PERTH AMBOY, NJ

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RARITAN BAY MEDICAL CENTER
530 NEW BRUNSWICK AVE
PERTH AMBOY, NJ, 8861

Phone (make sure to verify first before calling): (732) 442-3700

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Hospital Owner: Voluntary non-profit - Private
Emergency Services: Yes
Type: Psychiatric Units

Provided Services

Nuclear Medicine Services
Acute Renal Dialysis Services
Alcohol And/Or Drug Services
Anatomical Laboratory Services
Anesthesia Services
Blood Bank Services
Clinical Laboratory Services
Diagnostic Radiology Services
Dietary Services
Emergency Services
ICU - Cardiac (Non-Surgical)Services
ICU - Medical/Surgical Services
Inpatient Surgical Services
Neonatal Nursery Services
Obstetric Services
Occupational Therapy Services
Operating Room Services
Outpatient Services
Outpatient Surgery Unit Services
Pediatric Services
Pharmacy Services
Physical Therapy Services
Postoperative Recovery Room Services
Psychiatric Services
Respiratory Care Services
Social Services
Speech Pathology Services
Therapeutic Radiology Services

Employment Full-Time Equivalent

Licensed Practical Or Vocational Nurses : 78.00
Registered Professional Nurses : 374.40
Other Salaried Personnel : 1167.98
Dieticians : 3.43
Occupational Therapists : 2.00
Physical Therapists : 7.50
Registered Pharmacists : 19.10
Respiratory Therapists : 26.50
Physicians : 27.75
Medical Social Workers : 28.90
Residents (Physicians) : 26.00

Number Of Beds

Total: 522
Total Certified: 522
Psychiatric Unit Beds: 22

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers

Number of Completed Surveys: 300 or more
Survey Response Rate: 20%

How often did nurses communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	7%
New Jersey:	7%

Usually

This Hospital:	19%
New Jersey:	20%

Always

This Hospital:	74%
State:	73%

How often did doctors communicate well with patients?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	6%
New Jersey:	6%

Usually

This Hospital:	18%
New Jersey:	17%

Always

This Hospital:	76%
State:	77%

How often did patients receive help quickly from hospital staff?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	15%
New Jersey:	15%

Usually

This Hospital:	27%
New Jersey:	28%

Always

Here:	58%
State:	57%

How often was patients' pain well controlled?

Sometimes or never

This Hospital:	10%
New Jersey:	9%

Usually

This Hospital:	25%
New Jersey:	24%

Always

This Hospital:	65%
State:	67%

How often did staff explain about medicines before giving them to patients?

Sometimes or never

Here:	28%
State:	26%

Usually

This Hospital:	18%
State:	18%

Always

Here:	54%
State:	56%

How often were the patients' rooms and bathrooms kept clean?

Sometimes or never

Here:	14%
New Jersey:	11%

Usually

This Hospital:	21%
State:	22%

Always

Here:	65%
New Jersey:	67%

How often was the area around patients' rooms kept quiet at night?

Sometimes or never

Here:	16%
New Jersey:	17%

Usually

This Hospital:	32%
New Jersey:	32%

Always

Here:	52%
State:	51%

Were patients given information about what to do during their recovery at home?

Yes

This Hospital:	77%
State:	78%

Here:	23%
State:	22%

How do patients rate the hospital overall on a scale from 0 (lowest) to 10 (highest)?

6 or lower

Here:	13%
New Jersey:	12%

7 or 8

This Hospital:	30%
State:	27%

9 or 10

Here:	57%
New Jersey:	61%

Would patients recommend the hospital to friends and family?

This Hospital:	8%
New Jersey:	7%

Yes, probably

This Hospital:	32%
New Jersey:	28%

Yes, definitely

Here:	60%
New Jersey:	65%

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

Here:	98.0%
New Jersey:	99.0%

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Discharge

Here:	96.0%
New Jersey:	99.0%

Percent of Patients Given ACE Inhibitor or ARB for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)

This Hospital:	100.0%
New Jersey:	97.8%

Percent of Patients Given Beta Blocker at Discharge

This Hospital:	98.0%
State:	99.0%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Hospital:	100.0%
New Jersey:	99.9%

Percent of Patients Given PCI Within 90 Minutes Of Arrival

Here:	87.0%
New Jersey:	87.1%

Average number of minutes before outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack got an ECG

This Hospital:	12
State:	9

Outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack who got aspirin within 24 hours of arrival

Here:	100.0%
New Jersey:	96.9%

Heart Failure

Percent of patients who were given an evaluation of Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)

Here:	100.0%
New Jersey:	99.3%

Percent of Patients Given ACE Inhibitor or ARB for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)

Here:	99.0%
State:	96.5%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

Here:	96.0%
State:	92.8%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	100.0%
State:	99.7%

Pneumonia

Percent of Patients Given Initial Antibiotic(s) within 6 Hours After Arrival

Here:	95.0%
State:	96.4%

Percent of Patients Whose Initial ER Blood Culture Was Performed Prior To Administration Of First Dose Of Antibiotics

This Hospital:	97.0%
New Jersey:	96.8%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

Here:	99.0%
State:	99.4%

Percent of Patients Given the Most Appropriate Initial Antibiotic(s)

This Hospital:	96.0%
State:	93.9%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

Here:	95.0%
New Jersey:	93.7%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Hospital:	98.0%
New Jersey:	95.5%

Surgery

Percent of Surgery Patients given an antibiotic at the right time (within one hour before surgery) to help prevent infection

Here:	99.0%
New Jersey:	97.9%

Percent of Surgery Patients whose preventive antibiotics were stopped at the right time (within 24 hours after surgery)

Here:	97.0%
State:	95.7%

Percent of Surgery Patients who were given the right kind of antibiotic to help prevent infection

This Hospital:	94.0%
New Jersey:	97.3%

Percent of Surgery Patients who got treatment at right time (within 24 hours before or after surgery) to help prevent blood clot

This Hospital:	93.0%
New Jersey:	93.6%

Percent of Surgery Patients whose doctors ordered treatments to prevent blood clots after certain types of surgeries

Here:	95.0%
New Jersey:	95.1%

Percent of Surgery Patients needing hair removed from the surgical area before surgery who had hair removed using a safer method

This Hospital:	100.0%
State:	99.6%

Percent of Surgery Patients whose urinary catheters were removed on the first or second day after surgery

This Hospital:	90.0%
New Jersey:	92.9%

Surgery patients who were taking heart drugs called beta blockers before coming to the hospital, who were kept on them

Here:	92.0%
New Jersey:	94.8%

Outpatients having surgery who got an antibiotic at the right time - within one hour before surgery (higher numbers are better)

Here:	89.0%
New Jersey:	92.9%

Outpatients having surgery who got the right kind of antibiotic (higher numbers are better)

Here:	97.0%
New Jersey:	94.4%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

This Hospital:	15.5%
New Jersey:	15.5%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	10.2%
State:	10.3%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	8.8%
State:	10.9%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	23.6%
State:	20.9%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Hospital:	29.7%
New Jersey:	26.4%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Hospital:	21.5%
New Jersey:	19.5%

Hospital Acquired Conditions

Pressure Ulcer Stages III And IV

This Hospital:	0.259%
State:	0.213%

Falls And Trauma

Here:	0.259%
State:	0.506%

Vascular Catheter-Associated Infection

This Hospital:	0.431%
State:	0.642%

Catheter-Associated UTI

This Hospital:	0.259%
New Jersey:	0.293%

Manifestations Of Poor Glycemic Control

Here:	0.086%
State:	0.034%

Average Medicare Payment

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w/o CC/MCC: $6,718

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w MCC: $15,056

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive w CC: $9,435

Heart failure and shock w/o CC/MCC: $5,602

Heart failure and shock w MCC: $11,329

Heart failure and shock w CC: $7,813

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w/o CC/MCC: $5,628

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w MCC: $10,110

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease w CC: $7,537

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy w MCC: $11,116

Diabetes w MCC: $10,549

Chest Pain: $4,105

Major cardiovasc procedures w MCC or thoracic aortic aneurysm repair: $39,167

Extracranial procedures w/o CC/MCC: $7,746

Extracranial procedures w CC: $12,020

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w/o CC/MCC: $15,556

Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant w CC: $20,086

Perc cardiovasc proc w drug-eluting stent w/o MCC: $14,841

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w/o CC/MCC: $8,740

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $19,116

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy w/o c.d.e. w CC: $12,808

Cholecystectomy except by laparoscope w/o c.d.e. w MCC: $27,628

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w/o CC/MCC: $7,486

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w MCC: $19,288

Hernia procedures except inguinal and femoral w CC: $10,850

Major small and large bowel procedures w/o CC/MCC: $12,533

Major small and large bowel procedures w CC: $19,855

Major small and large bowel procedures w MCC: $39,912

Bilateral or multiple major joint procs of lower extremity w/o MCC: $16,730

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w/o MCC: $15,578

Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity w MCC: $25,416

Revision of hip or knee replacement w CC: $19,718

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w/o CC/MCC: $11,438

Biopsies of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue w CC: $16,427

Other musculoskelet sys and conn tiss O.R. proc w MCC: $778

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w/o CC/MCC: $5,492

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w MCC: $25,436

Kidney and ureter procedures for neoplasm w CC: $14,389

Kidney and ureter procedures for non-neoplasm w MCC: $846

Transurethral procedures w MCC: $17,296

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w/o CC/MCC: $10,157

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w MCC: $21,496

Other kidney and urinary tract procedures w CC: $16,749

Transurethral prostatectomy w/o CC/MCC: $4,906

Transurethral prostatectomy w CC/MCC: $8,636

Female reproductive system reconstructive procedures: $3,270

Uterine and adnexa proc for non-malignancy w/o CC/MCC: $6,516

Use of Medical Imaging

Outpatients with low back pain who had an MRI without trying recommended treatments first, such as physical therapy.

Here:	35.500%
State:	26.983%

Outpatients who had a follow-up mammogram or ultrasound within 45 days after a screening mammogram.

This Hospital:	4.100%
New Jersey:	10.654%

Outpatient CT scans of the abdomen that were combination (double) scans.

This Hospital:	0.047%
State:	0.129%

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