Nationally Ranked Hospital
Ranked #1 in
New Jersey
Recognized in
Northern New Jersey
Ranked
#4 in
New York metro area
Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, NJ is ranked nationally in 8 adult and 1 pediatric specialties. It was also high-performing in 4 adult specialties, as shown below. It scored high in patient safety, demonstrating commitment to reducing accidents and medical mistakes. Hackensack University Medical Center is a 696-bed general medical and surgical facility with 68,717 admissions in the most recent year reported. It performed 13,501 annual inpatient and 20,700 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency room had 117,601 visits. Hackensack University Medical Center is a teaching hospital.
These institutions were also considered in this hospital's specialty rankings:
Profile for Patients
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Hackensack University Medical Center, one of the nation’s healthcare leaders, is driven by a commitment to providing the highest quality care. At HackensackUMC, quality means always striving to deliver the best medicine to our patients — leading the pursuit of excellence in healthcare.
Adult Specialties
This hospital was among 148 facilities—roughly 3 percent of the 4,793 analyzed for the latest Best Hospitals rankings—to be ranked in even one of the 16 specialties.
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Pediatric Specialties
This hospital was one of 80 facilities that made the rankings in at least one of the 10 specialties analyzed for the 2012-13 Best Children's Hospitals.
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Editor's Note, 7/17/2012: Some children's hospitals were initially misranked in one or more specialties due to a programming error that affected their scores. The website now displays correct rankings. To see if this hospital was one of the affected hospitals, get details here.
Patient Satisfaction
Under a federal program, most U.S. hospitals now sample recently discharged patients and ask them about their stay. In a year's worth of surveys, here's how this hospital's patients responded to a key question, along with averages within the state and nationally.
Whether patients would recommend the hospital to friends and family:
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80%
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| State Average |
65%
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| National Average |
70%
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| Probably or definitely not |
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4%
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7%
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| National Average |
5%
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See complete patient satisfaction survey results
Details
For more about this hospital, see hospital details. The information shown is provided by the American Hospital Association, which compiles data on all U.S. hospitals through an annual survey and from other sources. Hospital ownership, number of doctors and nurses, volume of births and ER visits, and available services such as sports medicine are just a few examples of data collected by the AHA. Find out more at www.ahadata.com.
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Contact
Hackensack University Medical Center
30 Prospect Avenue
Hackensack, NJ 07601-1912
(201) 996–2000
