Hospital rankings
Hospitals in New Jersey with the lowest stroke death rate
58 New Jersey hospitals ranked by stroke 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 | Stroke death ratelower is better | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Heart failure death ratelower is better | Pneumonia death ratelower is better | COPD death ratelower is better | CABG surgery death ratelower is better | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | Compare |
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| National average | 11.9% | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.2% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 15.0% | ||
| 51 | Virtua Our Lady Of Lourdes Hospital | 13.4%, 24th percentile | 13.1%, 13th percentile | 12.5%, 22nd percentile | 17.1%, 23rd percentile | 7.8%, 69th percentile | 1.9%, 78th percentile | 15.4%, 23rd percentile | Compare Virtua Our Lady Of Lourdes Hospital |
| 52 | The University Hospital | 13.7%, 21st percentile | — | 12.1%, 28th percentile | 14.7%, 58th percentile | 8.7%, 43rd percentile | — | 15.6%, 16th percentile | Compare The University Hospital |
| T53 | Monmouth Medical Center | 13.8%, 20th percentile | 12.2%, 35th percentile | 10.6%, 58th percentile | 15.1%, 51st percentile | 9.3%, 28th percentile | — | 16.2%, 5th percentile | Compare Monmouth Medical Center |
| T53 | Capital Health Regional Medical Center | 13.8%, 20th percentile | 11.7%, 54th percentile | 10.3%, 64th percentile | 19.2%, 7th percentile | 8.4%, 52nd percentile | 2.5%, 38th percentile | 15.6%, 16th percentile | Compare Capital Health Regional Medical Center |
| T55 | Saint Peter's University Hospital | 14.0%, 18th percentile | 11.4%, 65th percentile | 9.5%, 79th percentile | 14.4%, 63rd percentile | 8.5%, 49th percentile | — | 16.2%, 5th percentile | Compare Saint Peter's University Hospital |
| T55 | Heights University Hospital | 14.0%, 18th percentile | 11.1%, 74th percentile | 11.8%, 34th percentile | 13.8%, 72nd percentile | 8.4%, 52nd percentile | — | 14.8%, 61st percentile | Compare Heights University Hospital |
| 57 | Virtua Mount Holly Hospital | 14.5%, 14th percentile | 11.9%, 46th percentile | 12.3%, 25th percentile | 17.3%, 20th percentile | 9.0%, 36th percentile | — | 16.5%, 3rd percentile | Compare Virtua Mount Holly Hospital |
| 58 | Shore Medical Center | 16.7%, 6th percentile | 10.9%, 80th percentile | 12.2%, 27th percentile | 14.7%, 58th percentile | 10.9%, 7th percentile | — | 15.2%, 34th percentile | Compare Shore Medical Center |
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.
- Stroke death rate
- 30-day death rate for stroke 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.
- 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.
- 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.