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The Garden State ranks in the top 10 states for the highest percentage of "A" hospitals, joining states like Utah, Virginia, and Connecticut. The grades, which are updated twice a year, assess nearly 3,000 hospitals across the country on their effectiveness at preventing medical errors, accidents, and infections.
The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses up to 30 performance measures to assign grades ranging from "A" to "F," offering patients and families a transparent, peer-reviewed tool for understanding hospital safety.
For this fall, the report shows national improvements in key areas such as healthcare-associated infections, hand hygiene, and medication safety, trends mirrored in New Jersey's own healthcare facilities.
The New Jersey hospitals that earned an A, in order starting with the safest according to Leapfrog, are:
- Community Medical Center, Toms River
- Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
- Hackensack Meridian Bayshore Medical, Holmdel
- Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack
- Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune
- Hackensack Meridian Ocean University Medical Center, Brick
- Hackensack Meridian Palisades Medical Center, North Bergen
- Hackensack Meridian Pasckack Valley Medical Center, Westwood
- Hackensack Meridian Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank
- Holy Name Medical Center, Teaneck
- Hunterdon Medical Center, Flemington
- Inspira Medical Center Elmer
- Inspira Medical Center Mullica Hill
- Inspira Medical Center Vineland
- Jefferson Washington Township Hospital, Turnersville
- Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus, Lakewood
- Morristown Medical Center
- Overlook Medical Center, Summit
- Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center, Plainsboro
- Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Rahway
- Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Somerset
- Saint Clare’s Hospital of Dover
- Saint Michael’s Medical Center, Newark
- Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick
- St. Joseph’s Wayne Medical Center
- St. Luke’s Warren Campus, Phillipsburg
- St. Mary’s General Hospital
- Virtua Marlton Hospital
- Virtua Voorhees Hospital
Click here for the hospital grades.
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