35 NJ Hospitals Get 'A' Rating For Safety, 10 Get 'C': See Full List

A new hospital safety report released Thursday shows that 35 hospitals in New Jersey earned “A” grades based on their ability to protect their patients from often preventable harm.

The Leapfrog Group’s Fall 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.

The Leapfrog Group, a watchdog founded 25 years ago, says it aims to improve American health care through transparency.

The report also named “Straight A” hospitals — those earning an A grade for more than two years in a row.

Medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections are largely preventable problems that harm one in four hospital inpatients and cause as many as 250,000 deaths each year, according to The Leapfrog Group. The Safety Grade reports have been a cornerstone of that effort, the group says.

Hospitals in New Jersey that earned A grades were:

‘Straight A’ Hospitals

• Community Medical Center (99 Route 37 W., Toms River)
• Englewood Hospital & Medical Center (350 Engle Street, Englewood)
• Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center (30 Prospect Ave., Hackensack)
• Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center (1945 Route 33, Neptune)
• Hackensack Meridian Ocean University Medical Center (425 Jack Martin Blvd., Brick)
• Hunterdon Medical Center (2100 Wescott Drive, Flemington)
• Inspira Medical Center Elmer (501 Front Street, Elmer)
• Inspira Medical Center Mullica Hill (700 Mullica Hill Road, Mullica Hill)
• Jefferson Washington Township Hospital (435 Hurffville-Cross Keys Road, Turnersville)
• Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus (600 River Ave., Lakewood)
• Morristown Medical Center (100 Madison Ave., Morristown)
• Overlook Medical Center (99 Beauvoir Ave., Summit)
• Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Rahway (865 Stone Street, Rahway)
• St. Luke’s Warren Campus (185 Roseberry Street, Phillipsburg)
• St. Mary’s General Hospital (350 Blvd., Passaic)
• Virtua Marlton Hospital (90 Brick Road, Marlton)
• Virtua Voorhees Hospital (100 Bowman Drive, Voorhees)

‘A’ Hospitals

• Chilton Medical Center (97 W. Parkway, Pompton Plains)
• Hackensack Meridian Bayshore Medical Center (727 North Beers Street, Holmdel)
• Hackensack Meridian Pascack Valley Medical Center (250 Old Hook Road, Westwood)
• Hackensack Meridian Raritan Bay Medical Center (530 New Brunswick Ave., Perth Amboy)
• Hackensack Meridian Riverview Medical Center (1 Riverview Plaza, Red Bank)
• Hackensack Meridian Southern Ocean Medical Center (1140 Route 72 W., Manahawkin)
• Holy Name Medical Center (718 Teaneck Road, Teaneck)
• Jefferson Cherry Hill Hospital (2201 Chapel Ave. West, Cherry Hill)
• Monmouth Medical Center (300 Second Ave., Long Branch)
• Newton Medical Center (175 High Street, Newton)
• Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton (1 Hamilton Health Place, Hamilton)
• Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset (110 Rehill Ave., Somerville)
• Saint Michael’s Medical Center (111 Central Ave., Newark)
• Saint Peter’s University Hospital (254 Easton Ave., New Brunswick)
• Shore Medical Center (100 Medical Center Way, Somers Point)
• St. Joseph’s University Medical Center (703 Main Street, Paterson)
• St. Joseph’s Wayne Medical Center (224 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne)
• Trinitas Regional Medical Center RWJBH (225 Williamson Street, Elizabeth)

Additionally, 21 hospitals in New Jersey earned B grades, 10 received C grades, and one received a D grade. No New Jersey hospital received a failing F grade, according to the report.

The Leapfrog Group, for the first time in the history of its report cards, looked at the performance of hospitals that are part of larger networks of health care facilities that are owned or managed under a single parent organization.

“We want to understand if system leadership accelerates patient safety or not,” Leah Binder, Leapfrog’s president and CEO, said in a news release.

The analysis found that 90 percent of hospitals with a fall 2025 Safety Grade are part of a health system. Among A hospitals, the chance of being system-affiliated is slightly higher, at 94 percent. The same held true for Straight A hospitals, with 95 percent of the 358 Straight A hospitals part of health systems.

All 11 hospitals that have earned an A for every grading round since 2012 are affiliated with health systems.

The 10 health systems with the highest total number of A hospitals and Straight A hospitals in the fall 2025 report are:

1. Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare (51 A and 18 Straight A hospitals)
2. Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health (49 A and 24 Straight A hospitals)
3. Altamonte Springs, Florida-based AdventHealth (29 A and 21 Straight A hospitals)
4. Oakland, California-based Kaiser Permanente (27 A and 12 Straight A hospitals)
5. Charlotte, North Carolina-based AdvocateHealth (24 A hospitals and 1 Straight A hospital)
6. Ontario, California-based Prime Healthcare Services (24 A and 11 Straight A hospitals)
7. Falls Church, Virginia-based Defense Health Agency (18 A hospitals, and no Straight A hospitals due to the fact that military hospitals haven’t been eligible for a Safety grade for five rounds or more; they will become eligible in 2026)
8. Brentwood, Tennessee-based Lifepoint Health (16 A and 2 Straight A hospitals)
9. New York City-based Northwell Health (15 A and 3 Straight A hospitals)
10. Sacramento-based Sutter Health (15 A and 3 Straight A hospitals)

Also, according to the report, the top five states for the largest percentages of A hospitals are Utah, Virginia, New Jersey, Connecticut and North Carolina, respectively.

Four states — Iowa, North Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming — have no A hospitals.