Newsweek Top Hospital Rankings Include Overlook In Summit

SUMMIT, NJ — Overlook Medical Center was ranked on Newsweek's annual list of top hospitals in the country this year, released earlier this month.

Newsweek partnered with global data research firm Statistica Inc. to compile the rankings. This is the third year Newsweek has released the rankings.

The list includes hospitals that “stand out for their consistent excellence, including distinguished physicians, top-notch nursing care and state-of-the-art technology,” said representatives, announcing the list.

In New Jersey, four hospitals made “The World’s Best Hospitals 2021” national ranking:

• 34. Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ: Performed "above average"
• 43. Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack: Performed "above average"
• 132. Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NJ
• 164. Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ: Performed "above average"

Three data sources were used to compile the list: recommendations from medical experts; results from patient surveys; and key performance indicators measuring things such as inpatient mortality rates, injuries to patients, bed turnover, Medicare and Medicaid measures, and occupancy.

The Top 10 U.S. hospitals on the ranking are:

1. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota (No. 1 globally)
2. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland (No. 2 globally)
3. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (No. 3 globally)
4. The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore (No. 5 globally)
5. Stanford Health Care – Stanford Hospital, Stanford, Connecticut (No. 13 globally)
6. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California (No. 17 globally)
7. The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City (No. 30 globally)
8. University of Michigan Hospitals – Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan (No. 23 globally)
9. Brigham And Women’s Hospital, Boston (No. 25 globally)
10. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York City (No. 33 globally)

» Read more on the methodology from Newsweek.

Overlook was also recently ranked among the state's top 50 hospitals in America by Healthgrades. read more about that here.

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