Hospital rankings
Hospitals in New Jersey with the lowest heart failure death rate
60 New Jersey hospitals ranked by heart failure death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Heart failure death ratelower is better | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Pneumonia death ratelower is better | COPD death ratelower is better | CABG surgery death ratelower is better | Stroke death ratelower is better | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | Compare |
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| National average | 11.1% | 11.9% | 15.2% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| 51 | Heights University Hospital | 11.8%, 34th percentile | 11.1%, 74th percentile | 13.8%, 72nd percentile | 8.4%, 52nd percentile | — | 14.0%, 18th percentile | 14.8%, 61st percentile | Compare Heights University Hospital |
| 52 | The University Hospital | 12.1%, 28th percentile | — | 14.7%, 58th percentile | 8.7%, 43rd percentile | — | 13.7%, 21st percentile | 15.6%, 16th percentile | Compare The University Hospital |
| 53 | Shore Medical Center | 12.2%, 27th percentile | 10.9%, 80th percentile | 14.7%, 58th percentile | 10.9%, 7th percentile | — | 16.7%, 6th percentile | 15.2%, 34th percentile | Compare Shore Medical Center |
| T54 | Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital - Somerset | 12.3%, 25th percentile | 12.3%, 32nd percentile | 16.2%, 35th percentile | 8.2%, 58th percentile | — | 10.0%, 81st percentile | 14.6%, 74th percentile | Compare Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital - Somerset |
| T54 | Virtua Mount Holly Hospital | 12.3%, 25th percentile | 11.9%, 46th percentile | 17.3%, 20th percentile | 9.0%, 36th percentile | — | 14.5%, 14th percentile | 16.5%, 3rd percentile | Compare Virtua Mount Holly Hospital |
| 56 | Capital Health Medical Center - Hopewell | 12.4%, 23rd percentile | 13.6%, 7th percentile | 16.2%, 35th percentile | 7.6%, 75th percentile | — | 10.6%, 69th percentile | 16.7%, 2nd percentile | Compare Capital Health Medical Center - Hopewell |
| 57 | Virtua Our Lady Of Lourdes Hospital | 12.5%, 22nd percentile | 13.1%, 13th percentile | 17.1%, 23rd percentile | 7.8%, 69th percentile | 1.9%, 78th percentile | 13.4%, 24th percentile | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Virtua Our Lady Of Lourdes Hospital |
| 58 | Saint Clare's Hospital/ Denville Campus | 12.6%, 20th percentile | 11.5%, 62nd percentile | 18.2%, 13th percentile | 7.4%, 80th percentile | — | 11.6%, 51st percentile | 16.2%, 5th percentile | Compare Saint Clare's Hospital/ Denville Campus |
| 59 | Valley Hospital | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 13.0%, 15th percentile | 15.2%, 50th percentile | 10.8%, 8th percentile | 2.1%, 62nd percentile | 8.8%, 95th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare Valley Hospital |
| 60 | Hudson Regional Hospital | 13.9%, 8th percentile | — | 20.9%, 2nd percentile | 7.7%, 72nd percentile | — | — | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare Hudson Regional Hospital |
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.
- Heart failure death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart failure patients.
- Heart attack death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart attack patients.
- Pneumonia death rate
- 30-day death rate for pneumonia patients.
- COPD death rate
- 30-day death rate for COPD patients.
- CABG surgery death rate
- 30-day death rate for CABG surgery patients.
- Stroke death rate
- 30-day death rate for stroke 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.