HACKENSACK-UMC MOUNTAINSIDE

Acute Care Hospital in Montclair, NJ 07042

HACKENSACK-UMC MOUNTAINSIDE PROFILE

Hackensack-umc Mountainside is an acute care hospital located in Montclair, NJ 07042 that serves the Essex county area. This facility is a private non-profit hospital with emergency services.

HACKENSACK-UMC MOUNTAINSIDE

Bay And Highland Ave
Montclair, NJ 07042
Phone: (973) 429-6000
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Patient Survey Summary Rating Summary Star Rating
The summary star rating combines data from different aspects of the patient’s experience of care to make hospital comparison easier.

Average

ABOUT THIS PROVIDER

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals What's an acute care hospital?
An acute care hospital provides inpatient medical care, services related for surgery and medical services for short-term illnesses, acute medical conditions or injuries.

Hospital Owner: Voluntary Non-profit - Private

Electronic Lab Results: Yes Able to receive lab results electronically
The provider has the ability of receiving laboratory results through a certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) system as discrete searchable data.

Outpatient Safe Surgery Checklist: Yes Safe surgery checklist use (outpatient)
This hospital follows a safe surgery checklist based on accepted standards of practice. Safe surgery checklists include three critical perioperative periods: 1) The period before the administration of anesthesia; 2) The period before surgical skin incision; and 3) The period of closure of incision and before the patient leaving the operating room for outpatient surgical procedures.

General Surgery Registry: Yes General Surgery Registry
The provider participates in the general surgery registry. Registries provide hospitals with information necessary to help them improve the care they provide.

Nursing Care Registry: Yes Nursing care registry
The provider participates in the nursing care registry. This registry collects and analyzes information on nursing care topics, conditions, or procedures.

Inpatient Safe Surgery Checklist: Yes Safe surgery checklist use (inpatient)
This hospital follows a safe surgery checklist based on accepted standards of practice. Safe surgery checklists include three critical perioperative periods: 1) The period before the administration of anesthesia; 2) The period before surgical skin incision; and 3) The period of closure of incision and before the patient leaving the operating room for inpatient surgical procedures.


Emergency Services: Yes Emergency Department
This hospital provides emergency services which might include acute medical care or trauma care.

PATIENT EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

The hospital patient survey at Hackensack-umc Mountainside is administered to a random sample of adult inpatients after discharge. The following are the results of some the survey’s five-star quality ratings.

Doctor Communication: Good

Quiet Rooms: Fair

Cleanliness: Average

Pain Management: Average

Discharge Information: Fair

Patients Recommend this Hospital: Average

EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT TIMES

These performance measures at Hackensack-umc Mountainside show how rapidly emergency departments give recommended treatments known to get the best results for patients with certain common conditions. This information could help patients compare which hospitals provide the right care at the right time.

ER Wait Time: 46 minutes before being seen by a doctor.

Discharge Time: 2 hours 28 minutes before being sent home.

Time Before Admission: 4 hours 37 minutes before being admitted to hospital.

Transfer Time: 1 hour 42 minutes admitted before being taken to room.

Broken Bones: 55 minutes before receiving pain meds.

HOSPITAL HIGHLIGHTS

We have identified the following individual quality measures where Hackensack-umc Mountainside has better average ratings than other hospitals in New Jersey or where the hospital is performing better compared to national averages or benchmarks.

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