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NJ Hospitals Adopts Protocols to Reduce Unnecessary C-Sections
Published by Lilo H. Stainton on NJ Spotlight. Cesarean delivery comes with a number of risks for mothers and babies, including blood clots, cardiac complications, asthma and diabetes. All 49 of the hospitals that deliver babies in New Jersey have signed on to an initiative to reduce the number of unnecessary cesarean section births, a…Read More…
Report finds NJ hospitals are performing too many c-sections.
Published by Leah Mishkin of NJTVnews A new Leapfrog report shows New Jersey hospitals are performing too many C-sections. The state is in the bottom five in the country in terms of meeting recommended standards. “For pregnant women, it’s hard because we want to listen to our health care providers and trust them, but we also need…Read More…
NJ hospitals target state’s abnormally high C-section rate
Published by Michael L. Diamond in the Asbury Park Press. New Jersey hospitals will try to reduce their high C-section rates by 10 percent during the next year in part by educating nurses and adding non-medical childbirth experts known as doulas, health officials said Monday. The project is designed to prevent unnecessary cesarean sections, which expose women to…Read More…
N.J. Hospitals Do Too Many C-Sections, and the Numbers are Climbing
Posted in NJ.com, Written by Times of Trenton Editorial Board The rates for Caesarian-section births vary widely by hospital in New Jersey, but health-care advocates and childbirth experts agree on one thing: Those rates are too high – and getting higher. The Garden State joined Florida, Kentucky, New York and Texas as the top five…Read More…
New Jersey Hospitals Fall Short in Maternity Care, Report Shows
Published by Nicole Leonard, Press of Atlantic City Only a few New Jersey hospitals are fully meeting maternity and childbirth health-care goals, according to a new national report. The 2018 Maternity Care Report released Tuesday by the Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit patient advocacy group, revealed while a handful of state hospitals excel at reducing…Read More…
N.J. hospitals still perform too many of these risky procedures
Published by Susan K. Livio on NJ.com. New Jersey hospitals’ longstanding problem of unnecessarily delivering babies by Cesarian-section got worse last year, a practice that puts mothers and their infants at a greater risk of complications, according to a new report released Tuesday. New Jersey, Florida, Kentucky, New York and Texas recorded the highest number of…Read More…
New Jersey C-Section Rate is Still High. See How Your Hospital Compares.
Published by Linda Washburn, northjersey.com New Jersey hospitals performed worse — not better — in lowering the rate of Cesarean deliveries for newborns in the most recent report on the quality of maternity care, released Tuesday. Only nine of 48 hospitals where babies are delivered brought the rate of such surgery down to the national goal level, said the…Read More…
Patient Safety: What Grade Did Your Hospital Get?
Published by Michael L. Diamond of the Asbury Park Press Monmouth Medical Center received an A grade from a hospital safety watchdog group, marking the seventh consecutive report card that the Long Branch hospital has aced. It was one of four hospitals at the Jersey Shore that received the top mark from The Leapfrog Group, a…Read More…
Leapfrog safety scores: 22 NJ hospitals get ‘A’ grades, while one flunks
Published by Vince Calio on NJBIZ. University Hospital in Newark was given an “F” grade for its safety conditions – the lowest possible grade – in The Leapfrog Group’s biannual hospital safety ratings. It is the first time in three years a New Jersey hospital has received an “F” grade. In all, 22 hospitals earned “A” grades,…Read More…
Which New Jersey hospitals are the safest? Here are the results of a new national survey.
Published by Susan K. Livio on NJ.com. Fewer hospitals in New Jersey earned an “A” for patient safety in the latest national report card released Tuesday. That drove New Jersey’s national rank down from 11th to 17th best for the strategies they used to prevent infections, falls and other harmful mistakes, according to the report. Just…Read More…