Morristown Medical Center Named Top Hospital In NJ: U.S. News

MORRISTOWN, NJ —New Jersey has a number of excellent hospitals. However, Morristown Medical Center has topped the state rankings for the fifth year in a row, according to new U.S. News & World Report rankings.

According to the publication, the medical center is one of the top acute care hospitals in New Jersey to be nationally ranked, and among the 50 best hospitals in the nation for Gynecology (No. 28), Orthopedics (No. 23), and Cardiology & Heart Surgery (No. 46).

Morristown Medical Center was also ranked the number nine hospital in the New York Metro area.

Hackensack University Medical Center, which tied with Morristown for first place last year, came in second.

“To earn the number one ranking in the state five years in a row validates our commitment to consistently provide exceptional, high-quality care for our patients,” said Trish O’Keefe, PhD, RN, President, Morristown Medical Center. “This national recognition is a testament to the unwavering dedication of our medical, clinical and support teams to bring about the best possible patient outcomes.”

Morristown Medical Center was also recognized for its excellence in 18 common adult procedures and conditions, including abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, aortic valve surgery, back surgery (spinal fusion), colon cancer surgery, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), diabetes, heart attack, heart bypass surgery, heart failure, hip fracture, hip replacement, kidney failure, knee replacement, lung cancer surgery, pneumonia, prostate cancer surgery, stroke, and TAVR (transcatheter aortic valve replacement). It was also named a top hospital in four adult specialties: gastroenterology and GI surgery, geriatrics, pulmonology and lung surgery, and urology.

Learn more about the U.S. News Best Hospitals methodology.

“Our communities trust us to provide the best resources to help keep them healthy, the latest and most innovative treatments and high-quality care no matter what brings them to our hospital. I’m enormously proud of the extraordinary efforts of our entire team whose exceptional collaboration and focus on excellence made this recognition possible,” O’Keefe said.

The annual Best Hospitals rankings are intended to help patients and doctors make informed decisions about where to seek treatment for difficult health conditions or common elective procedures.

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For the first time, the rankings for 2022-23 included some health equity measures, such as hospitals that provide more care to low-income patients and those with racial disparities in medical and surgical outcomes.

U.S. News made several changes to its 2020 hospital visit evaluation to normalize its 2022 rankings in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

All hospital visits in March 2020 were excluded, as were visits in which a patient was diagnosed with COVID-19. Visits to any hospital were excluded if they occurred during a month in 2020 when the hospital's COVID-19 rate was higher than the national average.

“The hospitals named to the U.S. News Honor Roll excel across numerous specialties and service lines,” said Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News. “When patients and their medical professionals are considering their options for care, the rankings are designed to help them identify hospitals that are superior in the kind of care they may need.”

See this year's full Best Hospitals ranking.