New Jersey's Best Hospitals For 2023: See Full List

NEW JERSEY — Throughout 2023, several data-based national rankings and safety grades helped New Jersey residents navigate the labyrinth of healthcare, and make decisions about the best places to have a baby, surgery or take care of other medical issues.

Here’s a review of how New Jersey stacked up in analyses and rankings from various publications, government agencies and a healthcare watchdog group:

U.S. News & World Report’s respected rankings included looks at the best maternity, children’s and overall hospitals in New Jersey. Read more: 10 NJ Hospitals Among Nation's Best: U.S. News Ranking

32 NJ Medical Centers Among Best Children's Hospitals: U.S. News

Best Maternity Care Hospitals Include 19 In NJ

Here is the summary of the state's best hospitals in 2023:

• U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals in NJ (7/31)
• U.S. News & World Report Best Children’s Hospitals (6/21)
• U.S. News & World Report Best Maternity Hospitals (12/5)

The publication also released reports to help guide older New Jersey residents in their decisions about health care. Read more:

• U.S. News & World Report Best Places to Retire (11/17)
• U.S. News & World Report Best Senior Living Communities (5/8)
• U.S. News & World Report The 34 Best Nursing Homes in New Jersey (11/16)

Newsweek also took a look at New Jersey residents’ access to top hospitals. Read more: These Are The Best Hospitals In NJ, Newsweek Says In New List

• Newsweek's Best In-state Hospitals - New Jersey (10/31)
• Newsweek's Best Maternity Hospitals in New Jersey (5/23)

The watchdog Leapfrog Group’s twice-a-year safety grades use both data and patient surveys to measure New Jersey hospitals’ records on patient safety, infection rates and other patient experiences. Read more: These Are NJ's Safest Hospitals, New Leapfrog Ratings Say

• Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades Spring (5/2)
• Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades Fall (11/12)

Healthgrades, which maintains a comprehensive database of ratings and comparisons for physicians, hospitals and health care providers, also released ratings on hospitals in New Jersey and others. Read more: 9 NJ Hospitals Among Top 250 In New National Rankings

• Healthgrades Top 50, 100, & 250 Hospital Specialty Rankings (1/18)
• Healthgrades Hospital Safety, Patient Experience Ratings (3/28)

Five New Jersey hospitals and medical centers were given 5-star ratings, the best possible, by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. Read more: See The NJ Hospitals Earning 5-Star Ratings From Medicare

• 5-Star Medicare-Medicaid Hospitals (7/27)

A couple of reports — one from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and another from a health insurer’s nonprofit foundation — serve as a barometer for the overall well-being of infants, women and children in New Jersey.

• CDC Report On Infant Mortality (11/1)
• 2023 Health Of Women And Children (10/23)