These Monmouth County Hospitals Among Safest In NJ, New Ranking Says

MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ — A new safety report released on Thursday shows that multiple hospitals in Monmouth County earned “A” grades based on their ability to protect their patients from 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.

A watchdog founded 25 years ago, the Leapfrog Group 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 Monmouth County that earned A and B grades were:

‘Straight A' Hospitals

• Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center (1945 Route 33, Neptune)

‘A’ Hospitals

• Hackensack Meridian Bayshore Medical Center (727 North Beers Street, Holmdel)
• Hackensack Meridian Riverview Medical Center (1 Riverview Plaza, Red Bank)
• Monmouth Medical Center (300 Second Avenue, Long Branch)

‘B’ Hospitals

• CentraState Medical Center (901 W. Main Street, Freehold)

For the overall New Jersey hospital rankings, 35 hospitals earned A grades, 21 hospitals earned B grades, 10 received C grades, and one hospital received a D grade. No New Jersey hospital received a failing F grade, according to the report.

• See Full List Of New Jersey Hospitals With ‘A’ Grades For Fall 2025 Ranking

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.