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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
| Rank | Definitive ID | Hospital name | Hospital type | City | Total facility square footage | Explore dataset |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2693 | St Joseph's University Medical Center | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Paterson | 2,734,524 | Explore |
| 2 | 2687 | Morristown Medical Center | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Morristown | 1,566,775 | Explore |
| 3 | 2679 | Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | New Brunswick | 1,555,670 | Explore |
| 4 | 2645 | Hackensack University Medical Center | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Hackensack | 1,445,917 | Explore |
| 5 | 2657 | Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Newark | 1,428,867 | Explore |
| 6 | 5809 | Trenton Psychiatric Hospital | Psychiatric Hospital | Ewing | 1,321,155 | Explore |
| 7 | 2678 | Saint Peter's University Hospital | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | New Brunswick | 1,230,415 | Explore |
| 8 | 2701 | Trinitas Regional Medical Center | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Elizabeth | 1,191,492 | Explore |
| 9 | 2698 | RWJ University Hospital Somerset | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Somerville | 1,170,205 | Explore |
| 10 | 2653 | Cooper University Hospital | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Camden | 1,114,172 | Explore |
| 11 | 2655 | Inspira Medical Center Vineland | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Vineland | 1,091,133 | Explore |
| 12 | 2650 | Jefferson Stratford Hospital | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Stratford | 1,084,505 | Explore |
| 13 | 2660 | Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Livingston | 1,066,618 | Explore |
| 14 | 2641 | AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center - Atlantic City Campus | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Atlantic City | 1,013,699 | Explore |
| 15 | 2688 | Saint Clare's Denville Hospital | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Denville | 975,026 | Explore |
| 16 | 2681 | Jersey Shore University Medical Center | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Neptune | 972,676 | Explore |
| 17 | 7129 | Virtua Voorhees Hospital | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Voorhees | 912,209 | Explore |
| 18 | 2643 | Bergen New Bridge Medical Center | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Paramus | 882,994 | Explore |
| 19 | 2646 | The Valley Hospital | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Ridgewood | 852,344 | Explore |
| 20 | 2703 | Overlook Medical Center | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Summit | 841,760 | Explore |
| 21 | 2674 | Capital Health Medical Center - Hopewell | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Pennington | 815,345 | Explore |
| 22 | 2663 | The University Hospital | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Newark | 814,010 | Explore |
| 23 | 2680 | Raritan Bay Medical Center - Perth Amboy | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Perth Amboy | 780,897 | Explore |
| 24 | 2642 | Englewood Hospital and Medical Center | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Englewood | 758,422 | Explore |
| 25 | 2661 | Hackensack Meridian Health Mountainside Medical Center | Short Term Acute Care Hospital | Montclair | 701,810 | Explore |
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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