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Largest hospitals in New Jersey by square footage

New Jersey has more than 140 hospitals located throughout the state.

For this Healthcare Insight report, we list the largest hospitals in New Jersey by total facility square footage. The total facility area metric tracked in the Definitive Healthcare HospitalView product is updated from Medicare Cost Report data and includes the hospital square footage of buildings and fixtures on which depreciation is taken.

Top 25 largest hospitals in New Jersey by facility square footage

RankDefinitive IDHospital nameHospital typeCityTotal facility square footageExplore dataset
12693St Joseph's University Medical CenterShort Term Acute Care HospitalPaterson2,734,524Explore
22687Morristown Medical CenterShort Term Acute Care HospitalMorristown1,566,775Explore
32679Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New BrunswickShort Term Acute Care HospitalNew Brunswick1,555,670Explore
42645Hackensack University Medical CenterShort Term Acute Care HospitalHackensack1,445,917Explore
52657Newark Beth Israel Medical CenterShort Term Acute Care HospitalNewark1,428,867Explore
65809Trenton Psychiatric HospitalPsychiatric HospitalEwing1,321,155Explore
72678Saint Peter's University HospitalShort Term Acute Care HospitalNew Brunswick1,230,415Explore
82701Trinitas Regional Medical CenterShort Term Acute Care HospitalElizabeth1,191,492Explore
92698RWJ University Hospital SomersetShort Term Acute Care HospitalSomerville1,170,205Explore
102653Cooper University HospitalShort Term Acute Care HospitalCamden1,114,172Explore
112655Inspira Medical Center VinelandShort Term Acute Care HospitalVineland1,091,133Explore
122650Jefferson Stratford HospitalShort Term Acute Care HospitalStratford1,084,505Explore
132660Cooperman Barnabas Medical CenterShort Term Acute Care HospitalLivingston1,066,618Explore
142641AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center - Atlantic City CampusShort Term Acute Care HospitalAtlantic City1,013,699Explore
152688Saint Clare's Denville HospitalShort Term Acute Care HospitalDenville975,026Explore
162681Jersey Shore University Medical CenterShort Term Acute Care HospitalNeptune972,676Explore
177129Virtua Voorhees HospitalShort Term Acute Care HospitalVoorhees912,209Explore
182643Bergen New Bridge Medical CenterShort Term Acute Care HospitalParamus882,994Explore
192646The Valley HospitalShort Term Acute Care HospitalRidgewood852,344Explore
202703Overlook Medical CenterShort Term Acute Care HospitalSummit841,760Explore
212674Capital Health Medical Center - HopewellShort Term Acute Care HospitalPennington815,345Explore
222663The University HospitalShort Term Acute Care HospitalNewark814,010Explore
232680Raritan Bay Medical Center - Perth AmboyShort Term Acute Care HospitalPerth Amboy780,897Explore
242642Englewood Hospital and Medical CenterShort Term Acute Care HospitalEnglewood758,422Explore
252661Hackensack Meridian Health Mountainside Medical CenterShort Term Acute Care HospitalMontclair701,810Explore

Fig. 1 Data is from the Definitive Healthcare HospitalView product and sourced from the Medicare Cost Report. Data accurate as of August 2022.

What is the biggest hospital in New Jersey?

St Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey is the largest hospital in New Jersey based on the facility’s total area of more than 2.7 million square feet. The hospital likely requires large facilities and space as an academic medical center, state designated trauma center, and magnet hospital.

Many facilities on the list are also among the top hospitals in New Jersey with the highest net patient revenue including Morristown Medical Center and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick. There is one psychiatric hospital on the list, Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, and the rest are short-term acute care hospitals. Many are also academic medical centers.

The average total facility area for the 25 hospitals on the list is 1.1 million square feet.

What is the average square footage of New Jersey hospitals?

The average total facility area for the 141 New Jersey hospitals tracked in HospitalView is 524,788 square feet.

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