Hospital In Livingston Ranked One Of 10 Best In NJ On New U.S. News & World Report List

LIVINGSTON, NJ — A Livingston-based hospital was ranked within the 10 best-performing hospitals in New Jersey in a list released Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report.

The publication also includes searchable lists of top regional hospitals and hospital rankings based on specialty care.

U.S. News evaluated more than 4,500 hospitals in 15 specialties and 19 procedures and conditions, adding rankings for ovarian cancer surgery, prostate cancer surgery and uterine cancer surgery to its 2022 list.

The 2022-23 rankings also took into account several health equity measures for the first time, noting hospitals that provide more care to low-income patients and those which have racial disparities in medical and surgical outcomes.

Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Livingston came in at number 6 on the list, in a seven-way tie with several others.

The hospital officially changed its name late last year to Cooperman Barnabas (READ MORE: Call Us Cooperman).

The hospital runs various events, including support groups for pregnancy, burn patients, ostomy patients, new moms, and more. Find out more here.

Here are the rankings:

• No. 1 in New Jersey: Morristown Medical Center
• No. 2 in New Jersey: Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack
• No. 3: Valley Hospital, Ridgewood
• No. 4: Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick
• No. 5: Overlook Medical Center, Summit
• No. 6 (tie): AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Atlantic City
• No. 6 (tie): Cooper University Health Care, Camden
• No. 6 (tie): Englewood Health, Englewood
• No. 6 (tie): Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune
• No. 6 (tie): Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston
• No. 6 (tie): Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center, Plainsboro
• No. 6 (tie): Virtua Voorhees, Voorhees
• No. 13 (tie): Ocean University Medical Center, Brick
• No. 13 (tie): Jefferson Stratford Hospital, Stratford
• No. 15: Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Camden

Find out more about the hospital and its specialties here.

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

READ MORE: US News Ranks 15 Best Hospitals In The State

Editor Josh Bakan contributed reporting to this story.