A new ranking of New Jersey hospitals shows that more than 80 percent of Garden State hospitals earned an A or B score in the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades for Spring 2024.
According to Leapfrog, the percentage of A- and B-ranked New Jersey hospitals in the spring survey was 81%, compared to 76% last fall. There were 30 A hospitals, or 45%, of the state’s acute care hospitals; that’s six more A hospitals than last round.
New Jersey is third in the country for the percentage of A hospitals (behind Utah and Virginia), compared to 13th in the last round during Fall 2023.
The grades reflect preventable medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections that together kill more than 500 people a day in the U.S.
“The number of A and B hospitals highlights that we are, overall, doing well as a state,” says Adelisa Perez-Hudgins, director of Quality for the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute. “The percentage speaks to the dedication of hospitals and healthcare teams that focus on patient safety and quality improvement.”
Of the 67 New Jersey acute care hospitals on the list, 13 went up a grade. Of these, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton and Saint Michael’s Medical Center in Newark went up by two whole letters, from C to A.
Leapfrog is a national nonprofit that represents hundreds of the country’s most influential employers and purchasers of health care. The Quality Institute is the regional leader in New Jersey and New York for Leapfrog.
Leapfrog assigns a grade to nearly 3,000 general hospitals across the country on how well they prevent medical errors, accidents and infections. Hospitals must voluntarily participate, and in recent years NJ has had a 100 percent participation rate.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, patient experience nationwide had worsened, according to the survey. This spring survey shows the first sign of improvement since Fall 2023. Additionally, since Fall 2022, when hospital-acquired infection rates were at their highest, 92 percent of U.S. hospitals have improved performance on at least 1 of 3 dangerous preventable infections: central line-associated bloodstream infections; catheter-associated urinary tract infections; and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
This is important because according to peer-reviewed research published in BMJ, Leapfrog said an estimated 250,000 people a year die of preventable errors and infections in hospitals, which makes patient safety problems the third leading cause of death in the United States.
These are the hospitals in New Jersey that received an A” safety grade:
Community Medical Center, Toms River
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Englewood
Hackensack Meridian Bayshore Medical Center, Holmdel
Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack
Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore Medical Center, Neptune
Hackensack Meridian Ocean University Medical Center, Brick
Hackensack Meridian Palisades Medical Center, North Bergen
Hackensack Meridian Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy
Holy Name Medical Center, Teaneck
Hunterdon Medical Center, Flemington
Inspira Medical Center, Elmer
Inspira Medical Center, Mullica Hill
Inspira Medical Center, Vineland
Jefferson Cherry Hill Hospital, Cherry Hill
Jefferson Washington Township Hospital, Turnersville
Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch
Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus, Lakewood
Morristown Medical Center, Morristown
Overlook Medical Center, Summit
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Hamilton
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Rahway
Saint Claire’s Hospital, Denville
Saint Michael’s Medical Center, Jersey City
Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick
St. Joseph’s Wayne Medical Center, Wayne
St. Luke’s Warren Campus, Phillipsburg
St Mary’s General Hospital, Passaic
The Valley Hospital, Ridgewood
Virtua Marlton Hospital, Marlton
Virtua Voorhees Hospital, Voorhees
These are the hospitals in New Jersey that received a “B” safety grade:
Atlanticare Regional Medical Center-City Campus, Atlantic City
Atlanticare Regional Medical Center-Mainland Campus, Pomona
Cape Regional Medical Center, Cape May Court House
Capital Health Medical Canter-Hopewell, Pennington
Capital Health Regional Medical Center, Trenton
Carepoint Health-Hoboken University Medical Center, Hoboken
Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains
Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston
Hackensack Meridian Health JFK University Medical Center, Edison
Hackensack Meridian Old Bridge Medical Center, Old Bridge
Hackensack Meridian Pascack Valley Medical Center, Westwood
Hackensack Meridian Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank
Hackensack Meridian Southern Ocean Medical Center, Manahawkin
Hackettstown Regional Medical Center, Hackettstown
Jefferson Stratford Hospital, Stratford
Jersey City Medical Center, Jersey City
Newton Medical Center, Newton
Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center, Plainsboro
Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center Somerset, Somerville
Saint Claire’s Hospital, Denville
Shore Medical Center, Somers Point
St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, Paterson
Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Camden
Virtual Willingboro Hospital, Willingboro
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