Edison's JFK University Medical Center Graded In Latest Safety Ratings

EDISON, NJ — The Hackensack Meridian Health JFK University Medical Center recently received ratings from a watchdog agency as part of its twice-yearly “safety grades.”

On Wednesday, The Leapfrog Group, an independent healthcare nonprofit, released ratings and the hospital received a 'C'.

The Leapfrog Group uses an academic grading scale with five letter grades to score nearly 3,000 hospitals nationwide on more than 30 measures of patient safety. Leapfrog says its hospital rating system is the only one in the country focusing solely on a hospital’s ability to protect patients from preventable errors.

The independent grading system assigns an A, B, C, D, or F grade to general hospitals.

New Jersey led the country in the number of hospitals receiving an “A” grade for the latest round of rankings, released Wednesday.

In the garden state, 31 hospitals received an A, 17 hospitals received a B, 11 hospitals received a C and zero hospitals received a D grade. No hospitals received an F. More: New NJ Hospital Safety Ratings Released (See Best, Worst)

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