Hospital rankings
Hospitals in New Jersey with the highest patients' overall rating
60 New Jersey hospitals ranked by patients' overall rating in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Patients' overall ratinghigher 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 | 88 | 3.3 | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.0% | 1.00 | 162 min | 1.00 | ||||
| T49 | Trinitas Regional Medical Center | 83, 8th 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 |
| T49 | Virtua Mount Holly Hospital | 83, 8th 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 |
| T49 | Virtua Willingboro Hospital | 83, 8th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 12.1%, 38th percentile | 11.4%, 41st percentile | 14.8%, 61st percentile | 0.91, 70th percentile | 178 min, 31st percentile | 1.07, 14th percentile | 221 | Compare Virtua Willingboro Hospital |
| T49 | Palisades Medical Center | 83, 8th 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 |
| T55 | JFK University Medical Center | 81, 4th percentile | 3, 43rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 12.7%, 21st percentile | 10.9%, 52nd percentile | 15.5%, 19th percentile | 1.15, 14th percentile | 197 min, 20th percentile | 1.08, 12th percentile | 459 | Compare JFK University Medical Center |
| T55 | The University Hospital | 81, 4th percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | — | 12.1%, 28th percentile | 15.6%, 16th percentile | 0.95, 55th percentile | 307 min, 1st percentile | 1.11, 7th percentile | 519 | Compare The University Hospital |
| 57 | Carepoint Health-Hoboken University Medical Center | 80, 2nd percentile | 1, 3rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | — | 11.6%, 37th percentile | 14.9%, 54th percentile | 1.43, 3rd percentile | 222 min, 11th percentile | 1.17, 3rd percentile | 333 | Compare Carepoint Health-Hoboken University Medical Center |
| 58 | Capital Health Regional Medical Center | 79, 2nd 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 |
| 59 | Carepoint Health - Bayonne Medical Center | 78, 1st 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 |
| 60 | Carewell Health Medical Center | 72, 0th 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 |
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.
- Patients' overall rating
- HCAHPS overall hospital rating, linear mean score (0-100).
- 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).