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A new ranking by Healthgrades evaluates the top 50, 100 and 250 hospitals in America. (Shutterstock)
PRINCETON, NJ As the coronavirus places renewed importance on our access to safe, quality health care, a new ranking by Healthgrades has recognized four hospitals in New Jersey for superior performance in the years leading up to the pandemic.
Healthgrades, an online health care information company, recently released its 2021 list of America s Best Hospitals. The annual ranking recognizes the top 1, 2 and 5 percent of hospitals in the nation.
To compile the ranking, researchers looked at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid data from fiscal years 2017-19 for more than 4,500 hospitals nationwide. Researchers then analyzed how each performed across 32 conditions and procedures including heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, respiratory failure, sepsis and stroke.
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The limits on visitors remain in most Garden State hospitals, as the pandemic s second wave has kept them in the red zone. (Ashley Ludwig/Patch)
NEW JERSEY - The limits on visitors remain in most Garden State hospitals, as the COVID-19 pandemic s second wave has kept them in the red zone.
Months ago, hospitals across the state in adopting visitation guidelines from the New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA). This standardized policy for hospital visitation provides color codes based on the level of virus risk (virus risk is determined by COVID-19 levels in the community, the level of COVID-19 patients at each hospital, staffing levels, and inventories of PPE supplies).