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 | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Heart failure 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 | 15.2% | 11.9% | 11.1% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| T51 | Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | 16.7%, 27th percentile | 10.6%, 87th percentile | 10.0%, 70th percentile | 8.9%, 38th percentile | 2.2%, 55th percentile | 9.1%, 92nd percentile | 15.9%, 9th percentile | Compare Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center |
| T51 | Community Medical Center | 16.7%, 27th percentile | 14.0%, 4th percentile | 11.6%, 37th percentile | 8.5%, 49th percentile | — | 13.1%, 27th percentile | 15.7%, 13th percentile | Compare Community Medical Center |
| 53 | Clara Maass Medical Center | 17.0%, 24th percentile | 12.9%, 17th percentile | 9.6%, 77th percentile | 7.7%, 72nd percentile | — | 10.1%, 79th percentile | 16.1%, 6th percentile | Compare Clara Maass Medical Center |
| T54 | Trinitas Regional Medical Center | 17.1%, 23rd percentile | 12.7%, 21st percentile | 10.0%, 70th percentile | 6.9%, 90th percentile | — | 11.5%, 53rd percentile | 14.3%, 86th percentile | Compare Trinitas Regional Medical Center |
| T54 | Virtua Our Lady Of Lourdes Hospital | 17.1%, 23rd percentile | 13.1%, 13th percentile | 12.5%, 22nd percentile | 7.8%, 69th percentile | 1.9%, 78th percentile | 13.4%, 24th percentile | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Virtua Our Lady Of Lourdes Hospital |
| T54 | Carepoint Health - Bayonne Medical Center | 17.1%, 23rd percentile | 14.0%, 4th percentile | 10.5%, 60th percentile | 6.5%, 95th percentile | — | 12.6%, 34th percentile | 15.7%, 13th percentile | Compare Carepoint Health - Bayonne Medical Center |
| 57 | Virtua Mount Holly Hospital | 17.3%, 20th percentile | 11.9%, 46th percentile | 12.3%, 25th percentile | 9.0%, 36th percentile | — | 14.5%, 14th percentile | 16.5%, 3rd percentile | Compare Virtua Mount Holly Hospital |
| T58 | Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital At Hamilton | 18.1%, 13th percentile | 11.4%, 65th percentile | 9.0%, 86th percentile | 7.5%, 78th percentile | — | 11.9%, 45th percentile | 15.6%, 16th percentile | Compare Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital At Hamilton |
| T58 | Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital At Rahway | 18.1%, 13th percentile | 10.2%, 93rd percentile | 10.5%, 60th percentile | 7.7%, 72nd percentile | — | 9.9%, 82nd percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | Compare Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital At Rahway |
| 60 | Saint Clare's Hospital/ Denville Campus | 18.2%, 13th percentile | 11.5%, 62nd percentile | 12.6%, 20th percentile | 7.4%, 80th percentile | — | 11.6%, 51st percentile | 16.2%, 5th percentile | Compare Saint Clare's Hospital/ Denville Campus |
| 61 | Capital Health Regional Medical Center | 19.2%, 7th percentile | 11.7%, 54th percentile | 10.3%, 64th percentile | 8.4%, 52nd percentile | 2.5%, 38th percentile | 13.8%, 20th percentile | 15.6%, 16th percentile | Compare Capital Health Regional Medical Center |
| 62 | Hudson Regional Hospital | 20.9%, 2nd percentile | — | 13.9%, 8th 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.
- Pneumonia death rate
- 30-day death rate for pneumonia patients.
- Heart attack death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart attack patients.
- Heart failure death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart failure 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.