Straight A’s For Morristown Medical Center Once Again, Ranking Says

MORRISTOWN, NJ — Once again, Morristown Medical Center has been given the highest grade from The Leapfrog Group, a watchdog organization that says it aims to improve American health care through transparency.

Morristown Medical Center is among 35 NJ hospitals that received an ‘A’ grade in the ranking, and among 17 to receive an ‘A’ for more than one consecutive ranking. Morristown has gotten an ‘A’ eight times.

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 grades are given after Leapfrog Group analyzes the hospitals’ skills in the following categories: infections, problems with surgery, safety problems, practices to prevent errors, and doctors, nurses, and hospital staff.

See how Morristown Medical Center performed in these categories below:

• MRSA infection: Better than average
• C. diff infection: Average
• Infection in the blood: Average
• Infection in the urinary tract: Average
• Surgical site infection after colon surgery: Average
• Sepsis infection after surgery: Better than average

Problems With Surgery

• Dangerous object left in patient’s body: Worse than average
• Surgical wound splits open: Worse than average
• Death from serious treatable complications: Better than average
• Blood leakage: Average
• Kidney injury after surgery: Better than average
• Serious breathing problem: Better than average
• Accidental cuts and tears: Better than average

• Harmful events: Better than average
• Dangerous bed sores: Average
• Patient falls and injuries: Average
• Falls causing broken hips: Worse than average
• Collapsed lung: Better than average
• Dangerous blood clot: Worse than average
• Air or gas bubble in the blood: Better than average
• Doctors order medications through a computer: Better than average

Practices To Prevent Errors

• Safe medication administration: Better than average
• Handwashing: Better than average
• Communication about medicines: Average
• Communication about discharge: Average
• Staff work together to prevent errors: Better than average

Doctors, Nurses, And Hospital Staff

• Effective leadership to prevent errors: Better than average
• Nursing and bedside care for patients: Worse than average
• Specially trained doctors care for ICU patients: Better than average
• Communication with doctors: Average
• Communication with nurses: Better than average
• Responsiveness of hospital staff: Average

Click here to see The Leapfrog Group’s full grade breakdown of Morristown Medical Center.

With reporting from Sara Winick

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