St. Mary's Hospital (Passaic, New Jersey)

St. Mary's Hospital
Prime Healthcare Services
Geography
Location	350 Boulevard, Passaic, New Jersey, United States
Organization
Care system	Medicare (US), Medicaid, Charity care
Hospital type	Acute Care
Services
Standards	The Joint Commission
Beds	287
History
Founded	1895
Links
Website	http://www.smh-nj.org/
Lists	Hospitals in New Jersey

St. Mary's General Hospital is an acute care hospital offering a broad range of health care services and community outreach programs. The hospital campus is located in Passaic, New Jersey on a plot of land bordered on the south by Oak Street, the north by Crescent Avenue, the west by Lafayette Avenue, and the east by Boulevard.

St. Mary's address, officially, is 350 Boulevard. For most of its existence, however, the hospital operated at a facility located at 211 Pennington Avenue in the Passaic Park section of the city. It is affiliated with the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, a Roman Catholic convent in Morris Township, New Jersey.

As of 2014, St. Mary's is owned by Prime Healthcare Services. It added the "General" to its name following the acquisition.

St. Mary’s Hospital currently serves approximately 13,000 inpatients annually, in addition to caring for 10,500 patients requiring same-day procedures. A new ER Fast Track Center was added in 2009 to better accommodate the nearly 35,000 visits to St. Mary’s busy ER each year.

At one time, Passaic was home to two other hospitals besides St. Mary's. Passaic Beth Israel Hospital, the city's other religious hospital (Jewish), was located on Parker Avenue near Passaic's northern border with neighboring Clifton. Passaic General Hospital, later known as The General Hospital Center at Passaic, was located where St. Mary's currently operates, in the complex at 350 Boulevard. St. Mary's, as noted above, was located at 211 Pennington Avenue in Passaic Park.

Though comprehensive in their medical services, each original Passaic hospital had its own specialty. The General Hospital Center at Passaic's was cardiology, as it was renowned for its Eastern Heart Institute and for pioneering the first open heart surgery in the state; Passaic Beth Israel Hospital was a leader in treating cancer, having respected center of excellence in the field on oncology, and St. Mary’s Hospital was lauded for its maternal-child and behavioral health programs.

In 2000, Atlantic Health Systems acquired the General Hospital Center at Passaic. Four years later, the owners of Beth Israel Hospital bought General from Atlantic and closed the Parker Avenue facility, merging the operations of both hospitals into the Boulevard facility. The merged hospital took on the name PBI Regional Medical Center. Within two years, PBI Regional filed for bankruptcy due to mismanagement from administration and staff.

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