AtlantiCare In Atlantic City Named One Of Nation's Top Hospitals

AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City was named one of the nation's top 250 hospitals. This accolade puts AtlantiCare among the top 5 percent of hospitals nationally, according to healthgrades, which released the list Tuesday of America's Best Hospitals for 2019.

Healthgrades includes AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center - Mainland in Pomona in the listing. Three other New Jersey hospitals made it, including Morristown Medical Center, Overlook Medical Center (Summit) and Valley Hospital (Ridgewood).

Healthgrades said that its analysis revealed that on average, the hospitals on its list outperformed others in treating a core group of conditions that account for more than 80 percent of deaths in the areas evaluated for the rankings.

Healthgrades’ complete list of the top 250 hospitals are organized by state and are also not ranked in any order. Healthgrades evaluates hospital performance for 32 procedures and conditions and in order to be eligible for the list, a hospital must have evaluations in at least 21 of the procedures and conditions.

After identifying eligible hospitals, Healthgrades has a series of steps it uses to compile the list of the top 250 hospitals. The procedures and conditions evaluated by Healthgrades include heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, respiratory failure, sepsis and stroke. (You can read the full methodology here.)

You can see the full list of hospitals from Healthgrades here.