Black Health

New Jersey hospitals

New Jersey hospitals: racial-equity scorecards

63 Medicare-certified Black MMR 54.80/100k State scorecard available

63 Medicare-certified hospitals serve New Jersey, represented by the New Jersey Hospital Association. This page aggregates CMS Hospital Compare measures — overall star rating, mortality / safety / readmission / patient-experience measure-group performance — for each of those facilities.

University Hospital in Newark is New Jersey's only public teaching hospital and serves as primary trauma center for Northern New Jersey. NJDOH publishes facility-level hospital performance reports.

The state's recognized safety-net hospital systems — the facilities that carry a disproportionate share of Medicaid and uninsured admissions — include: University Hospital (Newark), Rutgers New Jersey Medical School's affiliated teaching system, and Cooper University Hospital (Camden). Each has its own detail page below.

Two editorial notes on scope. First, CMS does not publish a racial-disparity scorecard per-hospital at national scale; what we surface below is the facility's overall CMS rating paired with any race-stratified metric we could find in a primary source (AHRQ Disparities Atlas, a state discharge scorecard, or a published study). Second, we do not rank hospitals as 'worst for Black patients' without a primary-source citation — the legal standard for that claim requires it.

Safety-net systems in New Jersey

  • University Hospital (Newark)
  • Rutgers New Jersey Medical School's affiliated teaching system
  • Cooper University Hospital (Camden)

All 63 hospitals in New Jersey

Bergen New Bridge Medical Center

Paramus

Acute Care

Children'S Specialized Hospital

New Brunswick

Children's

Weisman Childrens Rehabilitation Hospital

Marlton

Children's

Hackensack University Medical Center

Hackensack · Hackensack Meridian Health

5★
Acute Care Teaching Birthing-friendly

Morristown Medical Center

Morristown

5★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

St Luke'S Warren Hospital

Phillipsburg

5★
Acute Care

Chilton Medical Center

Pompton Plains

4★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Deborah Heart And Lung Center

Browns Mills

4★
Acute Care

Englewood Hospital And Medical Center

Englewood

4★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Hackensack Meridian Health Pascack Valley Medical

Westwood · Hackensack Meridian Health

4★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Holy Name Medical Center

Teaneck

4★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Hunterdon Medical Center

Flemington

4★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Newton Medical Center

Newton

4★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Overlook Medical Center

Summit

4★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Riverview Medical Center

Red Bank

4★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Saint Michael'S Medical Center

Newark

4★
Acute Care

Saint Peter'S University Hospital

New Brunswick

4★
Acute Care Safety-net Teaching Birthing-friendly

Shore Medical Center

Somers Point

4★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Southern Ocean Medical Center

Manahawkin

4★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Ahs Hospital Corp

Hackettstown

3★
Acute Care

Atlanticare Regional Medical Center - City Campus

Atlantic City

3★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Bayshore Medical Center

Holmdel

3★
Acute Care

Cape Regional Medical Center Inc

Cape May Court House

3★
Acute Care

Capital Health Medical Center - Hopewell

Pennington

3★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center

Livingston

3★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical

Montclair · Hackensack Meridian Health

3★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Inspira Medical Center Mullica Hill

Elmer

3★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Jersey Shore University Medical Center

Neptune

3★
Acute Care Teaching Birthing-friendly

Jfk University Medical Center

Edison

3★
Acute Care Teaching Birthing-friendly

Monmouth Medical Center

Long Branch

3★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Ocean Medical Center

Brick

3★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Palisades Medical Center

North Bergen

3★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Raritan Bay Medical Center

Perth Amboy

3★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital At Hamilton

Hamilton

3★
Acute Care Safety-net Teaching

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital At Rahway

Rahway

3★
Acute Care Safety-net Teaching

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital - Somerset

Somerville

3★
Acute Care Safety-net Teaching Birthing-friendly

Saint Clare'S Hospital/ Denville Campus

Denville

3★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

St Joseph'S University Medical Center Inc

Paterson

3★
Acute Care Teaching Birthing-friendly

St Mary'S General Hospital

Passaic

3★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

University Medical Center Of Princeton At Plainsboro

Plainsboro

3★
Acute Care Teaching Birthing-friendly

Valley Hospital

Paramus

3★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Virtua Mount Holly Hospital

Mount Holly

3★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

West Jersey Hospital

Voorhees

3★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Capital Health Regional Medical Center

Trenton

2★
Acute Care

Carepoint Health - Bayonne Medical Center

Bayonne

2★
Acute Care

Carepoint Health-Christ Hospital

Jersey City

2★
Acute Care

Centrastate Medical Center

Freehold

2★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Clara Maass Medical Center

Belleville

2★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Cooper University Hospital

Camden

2★
Acute Care Safety-net Teaching Birthing-friendly

Inspira Medical Center Vineland

Vineland

2★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Jefferson Stratford Hospital

Stratford · Jefferson Health

2★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Jersey City Medical Center

Jersey City

2★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Monmouth Medical Center-Southern Campus

Lakewood

2★
Acute Care

Newark Beth Israel Medical Center

Newark · Beth Israel Lahey Health

2★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

New Brunswick

2★
Acute Care Safety-net Teaching Birthing-friendly

Trinitas Regional Medical Center

Elizabeth

2★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Virtua Our Lady Of Lourdes Hospital

Camden

2★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Virtua Willingboro Hospital

Willingboro

2★
Acute Care

Carepoint Health-Hoboken University Medical Center

Hoboken

1★
Acute Care Teaching Birthing-friendly

Carewell Health Medical Center

East Orange

1★
Acute Care

Community Medical Center

Toms River

1★
Acute Care Birthing-friendly

Hudson Regional Hospital

Secaucus

1★
Acute Care

The University Hospital

Newark

1★
Acute Care Safety-net Teaching Birthing-friendly

Data sources

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