Founded in 1868, Clara Maass Medical Center is a 472-bed acute care facility that serves residents of four New Jersey counties with a comprehensive array of services including a cancer center, breast health and disease management center, sophisticated cardiac services including CardioMems wireless monitoring, and a level 2 special care nursery. Clara Maass is undertaking a $4.3 million renovation of its cardiac catheterization laboratory and was awarded a $400,000 grant from the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey to fund a Philips Azurion 7 M20 FlexArm imaging system supporting complex cardiac and vascular procedures with high-resolution real-time imaging. The hospital’s center of excellence for Latino health, opened in 2017, serves as a hub of health and wellness information addressing the unmet needs of the local Latino community. Its “Clara Cares” program provides primary care to elderly individuals in senior housing communities, resulting in dramatically reduced hospital admissions and readmission rates, and the WAVE program delivers annual wellness assessments for seniors. The medical center earned a 4-star rating from CMS and has received 12 “A” safety grades from The Leapfrog Group. It holds Joint Commission “Gold Seal” certifications in congestive heart failure, cardiac rehabilitation, joint replacement, palliative care and primary stroke. Clara Maass is also one of only 101 hospitals in the U.S. named to Money.com’s first-ever “Best Hospitals for Bariatric Surgery” list.
