2011 Fact Sheet

Raritan Bay Medical Center (RBMC)

A New Jersey state-designated primary stroke center, Raritan Bay Medical Center is a recipient of the American Stroke Association’s Get with the Guidelines^SM – Stroke Bronze Performance Achievement Award, recognizing the medical center’s success in implementing a high standard of stroke care. RBMC, with locations in Old Bridge and Perth Amboy, is also one of less than two percent of hospitals nationally to achieve re-designation as a Magnet Hospital, recognizing nursing excellence, and is a three time recipient of the New Jersey Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield patient care quality award.

Licensed for 501 beds with a medical staff of more than 600, RBMC provides medical-surgical, maternity, pediatric, diagnostic imaging, laboratory and general and critical care, as well as adult behavioral health, emergency and interventional cardiac and same day surgery services. A leader in cardiovascular care, RBMC was one of only twelve New Jersey hospitals who participated in a national Johns Hopkins University Medical Center demonstration project studying the benefits of providing elective angioplasty in hospitals without onsite cardiac surgery. The medical center’s new Human Motion Institute is devoted to providing superior outcomes and patient satisfaction in all areas of musculoskeletal treatment.

RBMC has several specialty services including the Center for Wound Healing, Center for Sleep Medicine, Center for Women, Center for Continence and Pelvic Rehabilitation, Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Programs. RBMC’s Medical Pavilion at Woodbridge provides urgent care services without an appointment 365 days a year, obstetrics and gynecology and physical therapy services.

RBMC is a major clinical affiliate of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, a member of the Robert Wood Johnson Health Network and an affiliate of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey. For more information about services, visit www.rbmc.org.  For a free physician referral call 1-800-DOCTORS.

388 licensed beds at Perth Amboy location
113 licensed beds at Old Bridge location
Professional nursing and service staff of 1,700

Quality Designations

• National Magnet Designation (2004 and 2009) recognizing nursing excellence
• Bronze Get with the Guidelines^TM award for stroke care and
• Silver Get with the Guidelines^TM award for treating heart failure from the American Heart Association
• HealthGrades^TM has ranked RBMC among the top 10 percent of hospitals in the nation in the treatment of pneumonia HealthGrades, Inc. 2010 ratings
• RBMC is a New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services designated Primary Stroke Center, recognizing optimal emergency treatment of stroke patients
• Achieved highest scores in Middlesex County for Pneumonia, Heart Failure and Surgical Care, second highest in Heart Attack treatment in the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services’ 2009 Hospital Performance Report – Recommended Care/Process of Care measures section.