These Are The Best Hospitals In New Jersey, U.S. News Says In New Ranking

Hackensack University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health is the top hospital in New Jersey, according to the new 2025-2026 Best Hospitals ranking released Tuesday by U.S. News and World Report.

For its 36th annual report, U.S. News evaluated more than 4,440 hospitals based on their performance across 30 medical and surgical services.

New Jersey’s top hospitals are:

1. Hackensack University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health

• Nationally ranked in 10 specialties and three children's specialties. High performing in 23 procedures/conditions.

2. Morristown Medical Center Atlantic Health System

• Nationally ranked in five specialties. High performing in three specialties and 23 procedures/conditions.

3. Overlook Medical Center Atlantic Health System

• High performing in five specialties and 15 procedures/conditions.

4. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (New Brunswick)

• Nationally ranked in two children's specialties. High performing in three specialties and 16 procedures/conditions.

5. Jersey Shore University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health

• Nationally ranked in three children's specialties. High performing in three specialties and 14 procedures/conditions.

6. Valley Hospital

• High performing in one specialty and 12 procedures/conditions.

7. Cooper University Health Care (Camden)

• High performing in 14 procedures/conditions.

8. Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center

• High performing in 11 procedures/conditions.

9. AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center (Atlantic City Campus)

• High performing in 11 procedures/conditions.

Tied for 10. Englewood Hospital

• High performing in nine procedures/conditions.

Tied for 10. Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center

• High performing in nine procedures/conditions.

These hospitals are also among the 504 Best Regional Hospitals across 49 states and 95 metro areas ranked by U.S. News. Hospitals that earned high performance ratings across eight surgery and specialty areas made the cut

“For most Americans, health care decisions are made close to home. The Best Regional Hospitals rankings underscore the difference high-performing local medical centers make,” Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News, said in a news release.

“These local hospital rankings, entirely performance-driven, equip individuals and their families, in consultation with their medical providers, to choose the highest quality care available in their own communities,” Harder said.

The report also named 20 hospitals across 13 states to its Honor Roll, which represents the best of the best hospitals. Listed in alphabetical order, they are:

• AdventHealth (Orlando, Florida)
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston)
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles)
• Cleveland Clinic
• Hackensack University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health (Hackensack, New Jersey)
• Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian (Philadelphia)
• Houston Methodist Hospital
• Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)
• Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)
• Mayo Clinic-Arizona, Phoenix
• Mayo Clinic-Rochester, Minnesota
• Mount Sinai Hospital (New York)
• New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell
• Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
• NYU Langone Hospitals (New York)
• Rush University Medical Center (Chicago)
• Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital-Palo Alto, California
• UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles)
• UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco)
• University of Michigan Health-Ann Arbor

U.S. News evaluated 4,400 hospitals and ranked them based on their performance on objective measures such as risk-adjusted mortality rates, preventable complications, and level of nursing care.

The Best Hospitals Specialty rankings methodology and Procedures & Conditions ratings methodology measure patient outcomes using data from over 800 million records of patient care.

This year, among other methodology refinements, U.S. News added ratings in two new cohorts, Heart Arrhythmia and Pacemaker Implantation, to the existing Procedures & Conditions ratings, for a new total of 22 ratings.