Jersey Shore University Medical Center and JFK University Medical Center Recognized as Top Hospitals by Healthgrades
What you need to know
Jersey Shore University Medical Center and JFK University Medical Center have been recognized by Healthgrades as leading hospitals in America.
Healthgrades named Jersey Shore University Medical center one of America’s 250 Best Hospitals™ for two years in a row, placing it in the top 5 percent of hospitals in the country and an overall leader in clinical excellence. Additionally, the medical center has been named one of Healthgrades America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Stroke Care™ for 3 Years in a Row (2020-2022) and one of Healthgrades America's 100 Best Hospitals for Gastrointestinal Surgery™ in 2022, demonstrating exceptional quality of care.
In addition, Healthgrades named JFK University Medical Center one of America's 100 Best Hospitals for Stroke Care™ in 2022. The medical center’s stroke team has been at the forefront of delivering the best and timely medication administration that can prevent long-term disability or death. It also has the best survival ratings for stroke patients in the tri-state area.
About Healthgrades
For its analysis, Healthgrades evaluated approximately 45 million Medicare inpatient records for nearly 4,500 short-term acute care hospitals nationwide to assess hospital performance in 31 common conditions and procedures and evaluated outcomes in appendectomy and bariatric surgery using all-payer data provided by 16 states. Healthgrades recognizes a hospital’s quality achievements for cohort-specific performance, specialty area performance, and overall clinical quality. Individual procedure or condition cohorts are designated as 5-star (statistically significantly better than expected), 3-star (not statistically different from expected), and 1-star (statistically significantly worse than expected).
America’s 250 Best Hospital award recipients are making an impact. From 2018-2020, patients treated in hospitals achieving this Healthgrades recognition on average had a 27.8 percent lower risk of dying than if they were treated in hospitals that did not receive this award, as measured across 17 rated conditions and procedures where mortality is the outcome. In fact, if all hospitals as a group performed similarly to the 2022 Healthgrades America's 250 Best Hospitals, 160,256 lives could potentially have been saved from 2018-2020.*
To learn more about how Healthgrades measures hospital quality and to access the complete methodology, click here.