Honors & Awards

• In 2019, the Leapfrog Group awarded JCMC an ‘A’ grading for quality and patient safety for the fourteenth time since 2012.
• In 2017, the hospital received the Magnet Hospital designation for a third time.
• Named a Top Teaching Hospital by LeapFrog Group in 2017.
• Recipient of the American Health Association (AHA)/American Stroke Association’s Get with the Guidelines®–Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award; also named by the AHA as a Gold Fit‐Friendly company for its corporate culture of providing health and wellness.
• In 2016, Jersey City Medical Center received ISO 9001:2008 certification which demonstrates an organization’s ability to consistently meet high customer and regulatory standards for service.
• The first EMS service in the U.S. to earn triple accreditation in dispatch, education and emergency medical service.
• Since 2014, the hospital has been designated a “Leader in LGBT” by the Healthcare Equality Index (HEI).
• Only hospital in Hudson County to receive an “A” rating 12 consecutive reporting periods from 2012‐2017 by the Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit hospital safety and quality organization.
• Recipient of the Vision of Performance Excellence (VoPE) Award. This is the highest quality achievement award presented on the state level following Malcolm Baldrige criteria for organizational excellence: a comprehensive and systematic approach to leadership; strategic planning; customer and market focus; measurement analysis and knowledge; workforce focus; and operations process management and business results.