Hospital rankings
Hospitals in New Jersey with the lowest catheter-associated urinary tract infections
57 New Jersey hospitals ranked by catheter-associated urinary tract infections in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Catheter-associated urinary tract infectionslower is better | Overall star ratinghigher is better | Patient survey star ratinghigher is better | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Heart failure death ratelower is better | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | Serious complicationslower is better | Time in emergency departmentlower is better | Medicare spending per patientlower is better | Total beds | Compare |
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| National average | 1.00 | 3.3 | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.0% | 1.00 | 162 min | 1.00 | ||||
| 51 | Jefferson Stratford Hospital | 0.99, 12th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 11.4%, 65th percentile | 10.6%, 58th percentile | 17.5%, 0th percentile | 0.88, 78th percentile | 215 min, 13th percentile | 1.03, 28th percentile | 596 | Compare Jefferson Stratford Hospital |
| 52 | Palisades Medical Center | 1.01, 11th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 12.2%, 35th percentile | 8.6%, 90th percentile | 16.0%, 7th percentile | 0.84, 87th percentile | 206 min, 16th percentile | 1.03, 28th percentile | 202 | Compare Palisades Medical Center |
| 53 | Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical | 1.04, 10th percentile | 4, 73rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 12.5%, 26th percentile | 9.5%, 79th percentile | 15.1%, 40th percentile | 0.94, 59th percentile | 229 min, 9th percentile | 1.08, 12th percentile | 328 | Compare Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical |
| 54 | Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital At Hamilton | 1.28, 7th percentile | 4, 73rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 11.4%, 65th percentile | 9.0%, 86th percentile | 15.6%, 16th percentile | 0.78, 95th percentile | 172 min, 34th percentile | 1.06, 16th percentile | 248 | Compare Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital At Hamilton |
| 55 | AHS Hospital Corp | 1.80, 2nd percentile | 4, 73rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 11.9%, 46th percentile | 10.3%, 64th percentile | 15.0%, 46th percentile | 0.99, 37th percentile | 182 min, 28th percentile | 1.09, 10th percentile | 148 | Compare AHS Hospital Corp |
| 56 | Carewell Health Medical Center | 1.92, 2nd percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 1, 1st percentile | — | — | 16.1%, 6th percentile | 1.13, 16th percentile | 176 min, 32nd percentile | 1.29, 1st percentile | 211 | Compare Carewell Health Medical Center |
| 57 | Cape Regional Medical Center Inc | 2.27, 1st percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | — | 10.9%, 80th percentile | 10.8%, 54th percentile | 15.9%, 9th percentile | 1.47, 3rd percentile | 222 min, 11th percentile | 1.03, 28th percentile | 242 | Compare Cape Regional Medical Center Inc |
About these rankings
Rankings use the 2026 release of CMS Care Compare data. Hospitals share a rank (“T”) when their values are equal, and only hospitals with a reported value for the sorted measure are ranked. Shading compares each value with every hospital in the country, so it doesn’t change with your filters. Small differences are often not statistically meaningful; use the methodology and glossary for context.
- Catheter-associated urinary tract infections
- Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) in ICUs and select wards (standardized infection ratio; 1.0 = national baseline).
- Overall star rating
- CMS overall hospital quality star rating (1-5).
- Patient survey star rating
- HCAHPS summary star rating (1-5).
- Heart attack death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart attack patients.
- Heart failure death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart failure patients.
- Hospital-wide readmission rate
- Rate of unplanned readmission within 30 days, all conditions. From 2025 CMS reports the Hybrid Hospital-Wide Readmission measure (claims plus EHR data), which replaced the claims-only measure; values are close but not strictly comparable across the change. CMS suppressed it for 2026.. Latest available: 2025 release.
- Serious complications
- Patient safety and adverse events composite (PSI 90; 1.0 = national value).
- Time in emergency department
- Median time patients spent in the emergency department before leaving.
- Medicare spending per patient
- Medicare spending per beneficiary episode relative to the national median (1.0 = national median).
- Total beds
- Total beds reported to CMS (Provider of Services file).