The 10 Best Hospitals In NJ: New National Ranking

NEW JERSEY — Ten hospitals have been ranked the best in New Jersey, in a new report from Newsweek.

Morristown Medical Center is the top-ranked New Jersey hospital in Newsweek and data partner Statista’s America’s Best In-State Hospitals 2025 ranking, which lists more than 700 medical centers nationwide.

Other New Jersey hospitals, listed in ranked order, include:

1. Morristown Medical Center
2. Hackensack University Medical Center
3. Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
4. Overlook Medical Center
5. RWJBarnabas Health - Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
6. Cooper University Hospital
7. Saint Peter's University Hospital
8. Valley Health System - Ridgewood Campus
9. Monmouth Medical Center
10. Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center

The 2025 best in-state hospitals list features 5,000 medical facilities, located throughout all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The hospitals were ranked based on quality metrics from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and national surveys, including:

• The American Hospital Association’s Annual Survey of Hospitals Database, an online nationwide survey among medical professionals;
• Results from Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems patient-experience surveys; and
• Voluntary implementation surveys on PROMs (patient-reported outcome measures).
• Recommendations from doctors, hospital administrators, and other medical experts

The hospitals were evaluated based on a scoring model with four components: Hospital quality metrics score (45 percent), hospital recommendations from peers (36.5 percent), patient experience score (15 percent) and a PROMs implementation score (3.5 percent).