Hospital rankings
Hospitals in New Jersey with the lowest pneumonia death rate
62 New Jersey hospitals ranked by pneumonia 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 | Pneumonia death ratelower 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 | 15.2% | 3.3 | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.0% | 1.00 | 162 min | 1.00 | ||||
| T51 | Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | 16.7%, 27th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 10.6%, 87th percentile | 10.0%, 70th percentile | 15.9%, 9th percentile | 0.90, 73rd percentile | 129 min, 66th percentile | 1.05, 19th percentile | 597 | Compare Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center |
| T51 | Community Medical Center | 16.7%, 27th percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 14.0%, 4th percentile | 11.6%, 37th percentile | 15.7%, 13th percentile | 0.73, 97th percentile | 180 min, 29th percentile | 1.13, 5th percentile | 592 | Compare Community Medical Center |
| 53 | Clara Maass Medical Center | 17.0%, 24th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 9.6%, 77th percentile | 16.1%, 6th percentile | 0.96, 51st percentile | 142 min, 55th percentile | 1.14, 4th percentile | 472 | Compare Clara Maass Medical Center |
| T54 | Trinitas Regional Medical Center | 17.1%, 23rd percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 12.7%, 21st percentile | 10.0%, 70th percentile | 14.3%, 86th percentile | 0.91, 70th percentile | 209 min, 15th percentile | 1.11, 7th percentile | 384 | Compare Trinitas Regional Medical Center |
| T54 | Virtua Our Lady Of Lourdes Hospital | 17.1%, 23rd percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 13.1%, 13th percentile | 12.5%, 22nd percentile | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | 0.86, 83rd percentile | 168 min, 37th percentile | 1.09, 10th percentile | 340 | Compare Virtua Our Lady Of Lourdes Hospital |
| T54 | Carepoint Health - Bayonne Medical Center | 17.1%, 23rd percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 14.0%, 4th percentile | 10.5%, 60th percentile | 15.7%, 13th percentile | 1.30, 6th percentile | 206 min, 16th percentile | 1.18, 2nd percentile | 254 | Compare Carepoint Health - Bayonne Medical Center |
| 57 | Virtua Mount Holly Hospital | 17.3%, 20th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 11.9%, 46th percentile | 12.3%, 25th percentile | 16.5%, 3rd percentile | 0.99, 37th percentile | 198 min, 20th percentile | 1.10, 8th percentile | 383 | Compare Virtua Mount Holly Hospital |
| T58 | Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital At Hamilton | 18.1%, 13th 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 |
| T58 | Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital At Rahway | 18.1%, 13th percentile | 4, 73rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 10.2%, 93rd percentile | 10.5%, 60th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | 1.06, 25th percentile | 114 min, 79th percentile | 1.07, 14th percentile | 281 | Compare Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital At Rahway |
| 60 | Saint Clare's Hospital/ Denville Campus | 18.2%, 13th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 11.5%, 62nd percentile | 12.6%, 20th percentile | 16.2%, 5th percentile | 0.89, 75th percentile | 166 min, 38th percentile | 1.03, 28th percentile | 418 | Compare Saint Clare's Hospital/ Denville Campus |
| 61 | Capital Health Regional Medical Center | 19.2%, 7th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 11.7%, 54th percentile | 10.3%, 64th percentile | 15.6%, 16th percentile | 1.21, 10th percentile | 180 min, 29th percentile | 1.20, 2nd percentile | 237 | Compare Capital Health Regional Medical Center |
| 62 | Hudson Regional Hospital | 20.9%, 2nd percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 2, 10th percentile | — | 13.9%, 8th percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | 1.15, 14th percentile | 166 min, 38th percentile | 1.11, 7th percentile | 200 | 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.
- Pneumonia death rate
- 30-day death rate for pneumonia patients.
- 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).