What you need to know
- U.S. News & World Report, in its inaugural ranking of state and regional hospitals, has ranked the Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center #1 Best Children’s Hospital in New Jersey, and a top 20 children’s hospitals in the mid-Atlantic region in its annual Best Children’s Hospitals Report.
- Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital and K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital at Jersey Shore University Medical Center again also ranked in the top 50 for pediatric cancer care in the 2021-22 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings.
- The combined pediatric cancer program for both children’s hospitals received the national ranking for a third year in a row. No other pediatric cancer program at a New Jersey children’s hospital was recognized.
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Details about the Best Children’s Hospitals Rankings
The Best Children’s Hospitals rankings recognize the top 50 children’s hospitals across the U.S. in 10 pediatric specialties: cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery, neonatology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology and lung surgery and urology.