Raritan Bay Medical Center

About Raritan Bay Medical Center (RBMC)    
    A New Jersey state-designated primary stroke center, RBMC is a recipient of the American Stroke Association Get with the GuidelinesSM - Stroke Silver Performance Achievement Award, recognizing the medical center’s success in implementing a high standard of stroke care and the American Heart Association Get with the GuidelinesSM – Heart Failure Gold Performance Achievement Award, recognizing the optimal care of heart failure patients.
RBMC, with locations in Old Bridge and Perth Amboy, NJ, 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 500, 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 is one of only ten New Jersey hospitals chosen to participate in a national Johns Hopkins University Medical Center demonstration project studying the benefits of providing elective angioplasty in hospitals without onsite cardiac surgery.
The hospital’s Human Motion Institute is devoted to providing superior outcomes and patient satisfaction in all areas of musculoskeletal treatment, and its new Institute for Weight Loss at Old Bridge provides individualized medical and surgical weight loss options. RBMC has several other specialty services including the Center for Wound Healing, Center for Sleep Medicine, Center for Women and Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy programs. RBMC’s Medical Pavilion at Woodbridge provides urgent care services without an appointment 365 days a year, an obstetrics and gynecology physician practice and outpatient physical therapy services.
The medical center is a major clinical affiliate of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a member of the Robert Wood Johnson Health Network. For more information about services, visit www.rbmc.org. For a free physician referral call 1-800-DOCTORS.

High-Quality Designations Overview
•     National Magnet Designation (2004 and 2009) recognizing nursing excellence
•     Silver Get with the GuidelinesSM award for stroke care and
•     Gold Get with the GuidelinesSM award for treating heart failure from the American Heart Association
•     HealthGradesTM has ranked RBMC among the top 10 percent of hospitals in the nation in the treatment of pneumonia
•     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’ 2010 Hospital Performance Report – Recommended Care/Process of Care measures section.