St. Mary's General Hospital 4.55

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.DescriptionSt. 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.History of hospitals in PassaicAt 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.