15 NJ Facilities Ranked Among America’s Best Maternity Hospitals

NEW JERSEY — Fifteen facilities in New Jersey are among America’s best maternity hospitals, according to a recent ranking from Newsweek.

Where their baby will be born is one of the most important decisions parents can make, with the quality of care from pregnancy through birth through postpartum and the selection of a doctor and birthing plan at the top of their concerns, Newsweek said with the release of the ranking.

The list of 384 hospitals and maternity care centers are divided into two categories, with 159 institutions earning five-ribbon status and 225 with four-ribbon status.

Five-ribbon institutions in New Jersey are:

• Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston
• Englewood Health, Englewood
• Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch
• Morristown Medical Center, Morristown
• Overlook Medical Center, Summit
• Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick
• The Valley Hospital, Ridgewood

These NJ hospitals were given four-ribbon status:

• Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains
• Cooper University Hospital, Camden
• Hackensack Meridian Health Pascack Valley Medical, Westwood
• Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune
• Newton Medical Center, Newton
• Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center, Plainsboro
• Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank
• Virtua Voorhees Hospital, Voorhees

Newsweek partnered with the global research and consumer data company Statista to rank the hospitals.

The ranking is based on data from three sources: a nationwide online survey of hospital managers and health care professionals, including neonatal specialists and OB/GYNs asking their recommendations for maternity care; key performance data on maternity care, including cesarean birth rates; and patient satisfaction data.

Patch’s national desk contributed to this report.