Interactive Map: Mortality Rates for NJ Hospitals

By Colleen O'Dea, NJ Spotlight

Ever wonder how well your local hospital is doing? The New Jersey Department of Health rated 72 major hospitals across the state according to the number of deaths per 100 patients for pneumonia, stroke, heart attack, and heart failure.

The average mortality rates were 2.4 percent for pneumonia, 3.4 percent for stroke, 5.9 percent for heart attack and 8.2 percent for heart failure.

NJ Spotlight used the Mortality Inpatient Quality Indicator to create a mortality map. More information is available at the Hospital Performance Report.

The dataset used by NJ Spotlight was adjusted to account for differences in patient characteristics so that hospitals that treat sicker or older patients can be fairly compared to other hospitals that do not treat so many sick or elderly patients.

To see how your hospital rates, click here.

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Hospitals were ranked "Lowest", "Middle" or "Highest" based on their mortality rates, with "Lowest" meaning the hospital had the lowest morality rates and "Highest" meaning the hospital had the highest mortality rates.

The five hospitals nearest Fair Lawn received the following ratings:

: Middle

: Lowest

St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center (in Paterson): Highest

Hackensack University Medical Center (in Hackensack): Lowest

: Highest