36 NJ Hospitals Earn 'A' Grade In New Safety Ranking

NEW JERSEY — A new hospital safety report released Thursday shows 36 hospitals in New Jersey earned “A” grades based on their ability to protect their patients from often preventable harm.

The Leapfrog Group’s Spring 2025 Hospital Safety Grades are a biannual ranking that assigns a “A,” “B,” “C,” “D” or “F” to all general hospitals in the United States based on their ability to protect patients from medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections.

According to the safety grades, 18 hospitals received a "B" and 12 got a "C."

New Jersey ranks third among all states for the percentage of hospitals receiving “A” grades in the spring 2025 report card.

The “A” hospitals in New Jersey are:

• Community Medical Center
• Englewood Hospital & Medical Center
• Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center
• Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center
• Hackensack Meridian Ocean University Medical Center
• Hunterdon Medical Center
• Inspira Medical Center Elmer
• Inspira Medical Center Mullica Hill
• Inspira Medical Center Vineland
• Jefferson Washington Township Hospital
• Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus
• Morristown Medical Center
• Overlook Medical Center
• Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Rahway
• St. Luke’s Warren Campus
• St. Mary’s General Hospital
• Virtua Marlton Hospital
• Virtua Voorhees Hospital
• Chilton Medical Center
• Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center
• Hackensack Meridian Bayshore Medical Center
• Hackensack Meridian Pascack Valley Medical Center
• Hackensack Meridian Riverview Medical Center
• Hackensack Meridian Southern Ocean Medical Center
• Holy Name Medical Center
• Jefferson Cherry Hill Hospital
• Monmouth Medical Center
• Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton
• Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset
• Saint Claire’s Hospital of Dover
• Saint Michael’s Medical Center
• Saint Peter’s University Hospital
• Shore Medical Center
• St. Joseph’s University Medical Center
• St. Joseph’s Wayne Medical Center
• Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital

You can see the full rankings here.

Across the nation, 11 hospitals have earned "A" grades on all 27 evaluation rounds over the 13 years of the report card.

They include: Mayo Clinic-Phoenix in Arizona; French Hospital Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente Orange County-Anaheim Medical Center in California; Endeavor Health Elmhurst Hospital, Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital and University of Chicago Medical Center in Illinois; Saint Anne’s Hospital (Massachusetts); Inova Loudoun Hospital, Sentara CarePlex Hospital and Sentara Leigh Hospital in Virginia; and Virginia Mason Medical Center in Washington.

Leah Binder, the president and chief executive of The Leapfrog Group, said “A” grades should be a source of pride for hospitals, but she warned them not to “rest on that laurel.”

“Patient safety is a relentless, never-ending quest to put patients first,” she said in a news release. “That’s why Leapfrog is highlighting the hospitals across the U.S. that have earned Straight A’s for over two years. Sustaining an A over multiple years reflects a deep-rooted commitment to patient safety.”

The top five states with the highest share of “Straight A” hospitals since spring 2023 are Utah (29 percent), Connecticut (29 percent), New Jersey (27 percent), Rhode Island (22 percent) and Virginia (20 percent).

States with no “Straight A” hospitals for consistent performance over the past five grading cycles are Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming and Washington, D.C.

The states with the highest percentage of A Grades for spring 2025 are Utah, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Connecticut, South Carolina and Virginia.