Quality
RWJBarnabas Health: Delivering Excellence Together
At RWJBarnabas Health, we deliver the best care to our patients, each and every day.
No matter which RWJBarnabas Health facility you visit, from our highly ranked acute care hospitals to our state-of-the-art outpatient centers and specialty care facilities, you'll discover health care that makes you feel good. Along with leading edge medical treatments from competent medical providers, we guarantee excellence at every turn.
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
These days, most health care providers claim to provide "quality health care." At RWJBarnabas Health, we strive daily to provide quality care that’s better. Sure, we have been recognized for clinical excellence, extraordinary patient care and superior outcomes, but we believe improvement is always necessary to deliver the care our patients deserve. Attaining quality is not enough—we want to be better.
To guide these efforts, we built a framework to ensure patient experiences are consistent with our best practices. We regularly educate each team member on how to apply these standards so you and your family receive the highest level of care—even in the smallest details.
These are a few areas we’re focused on:
- Meeting and Exceeding Industry Standards: Our institutional policies and procedures comply with—and often exceed—all necessary laws and generally accepted medical standards.
- Safe Care: We maintain stringent systems for appropriate care and medical accuracy, and drive patient safety through the use of proven protocols.
- Clinical Excellence: We analyze and advance our care repeatedly to ensure that we are using the best possible methodologies.
- Clinical Resource Management: We manage resources to deliver care effectively and efficiently.
- Respectful Care: Respecting an individual’s and family’s values and customs allows us to honor their needs and choices.
Our Quality Data
As part of our commitment to excellence in quality and patient safety, RWJBarnabas Health facilities participate in the National Hospital Compare Report and The Leapfrog Hospital Survey, both offering consumer-oriented websites that offer side-by-side comparisons of hospitals. You can also find patient education materials for choosing a hospital. Learn how we compare using the links below:
Enabling a Team of True Caregivers
We help our physicians and staff members deliver above-and-beyond quality by making sure that they have the right tools and an appropriate environment within which they can provide better care. They are held responsible for implementing our best practices consistently and, as a result, are dedicated to practicing these standards.
Our culture is based on these three principles:
- Consistent Care: Our employees take care of you. That means you can count on being able to ask for and receive the information you need and the care you deserve—at any RWJBarnabas Health facility.
- Continuous Improvement: We listen to our patients, medical staff and employees, and analyze our own performance to cultivate regular improvements. We strive to continuously grow and improve care by applying best practices and developing new ways to deliver tangible excellence.
- Quality: We reward our employees and staff by recognizing outstanding care, excellence in clinical programs, extraordinary patient outcomes, and bold leadership.
At RWJBarnabas Health, our goal is to provide patients and their loved ones with the highest quality of care at world-class facilities that are close to home. We are dedicated to providing an extraordinary range of services while continually striving to improve patient satisfaction. Along with our credentialed staff and state-of-the-art facilities, this demonstrates our continuous commitment to quality that truly goes above and beyond.
Andy Anderson, MD
Chief Medical and Quality Officer
RWJBarnabas Health