Honors & Awards
- Received an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from the Leapfrog Group
- Honored as one of America’s 250 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades in 2026, ranking in the top 5% of hospitals nationwide for overall clinical performance.
- Recognized by U.S. News & World Report as “high performing” in maternity, heart failure, heart arrhythmia, leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma in the 2026 Best Hospitals rankings and ratings.
- Recognized by Becker’s Healthcare Review as one of the 100 Great Community Hospitals in the nation
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Honored by Healthgrades with its 2027 Specialty Excellence Awards:
- America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Stroke Care (third consecutive year)
- Cardiology Excellence Award
- Gastrointestinal Care Excellence Award
- Gastrointestinal Medical Excellence Award
- Neurosciences Excellence Award (third consecutive year)
- Pulmonary Care Excellence Award
- Healthgrades ranked RWJUH Somerset in the top 5 in New Jersey for Gastrointestinal Medical Treatment
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Earned Healthgrades rating of 5 stars for the treatment of heart attack, heart failure, stroke, COPD, pneumonia, GI bleed, sepsis, pulmonary embolism and respiratory failure.
- Nationally recognized as a Magnet® hospital for nursing excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
- Earned the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for total knee and total hip replacement surgery and its acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) program.
- Designated as a Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission and the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services.
- Honored with the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get with the Guidelines®‐Stroke GOLD PLUS Achievement Award.
- Recognized as a Senior-Friendly Hospital by NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders).
- The Sanofi US Breast Care Program has achieved full accreditation by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers and has been named a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology.
- Most Wired recognition from The College of Health Care Information Management Executives (CHIME).
