Hackensack, Morristown, St. Joe's among busiest hospital ERs in nation, poll reveals
Hackensack University Medical Center had the 10th-busiest emergency room in the United States in 2022, and two other North Jersey hospitals were close on its heels, a new poll found.
With 133,000 self-reported visits in 2022, Hackensack was 10th among 49 emergency rooms cited in the annual poll by Becker's Hospital Review magazine. St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson, with 112,690 visits, was listed 23rd. Morristown Medical Center, with 103,674 visits, was 35th.
Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas topped the 2022 list, with 226,178 visits. No other New Jersey hospitals cracked the top 49.
The figures indicate the number of emergency department visits seen by a single facility, not the total emergency visits seen by the entire health system. The list is not considered exhaustive, the poll announcement said.
St. Joseph's finished fifth in the 2021 Becker's poll, with 150,615 reported visits. Morristown was 37th with 93,362 visits. No other New Jersey hospitals, including Hackensack, made the 2021 list.
The full 2022 Becker's list of busiest hospital ERs in the nation in 2022:
Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas — 226,178 visits
Lakeland Regional Medical Center in Florida — 199,927 visits
Multicare Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup, Washington — 162,390 visits
Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia — 162,335 visits
Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut — 147,385 visits
NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln in the Bronx — 145,864 visits
Los Angeles General — 143,580 visits
WakeMed Raleigh in North Carolina — 137,402 visits
Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta — 135,000 visits
Hackensack University Medical Center — 133,190 visits
Boston Medical Center — 131,638 visits
Montefiore Medical Center-Moses Campus in New York — 131,092 visits
NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst in Queens — 127,254 visits
John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas — 125,812 visits*
Antelope Valley Medical Center in Lancaster, California — 125,000 visits
Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville, North Carolina — 124,238 visits
NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County in Brooklyn — 121,506 visits
Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan — 119,812 visits
SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City — 117,678 visits
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston — 117,255 visits
Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, Georgia — 116,857 visits
UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, Colorado — 114,405 visits
St. Joseph's University Medical Center — 112,690 visits
University Medical Center of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas — 112,215 visits
Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts — 112,135 visits
University of Michigan Health in Ann Arbor — 111,247 visits
Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa, California — 111,224 visits
Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles — 109,732 visits
ECU Health Medical Center in Greenville, North Carolina — 109,677
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth — 109,424 visits
Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona — 109,347 visits
Denver Health Medical Center — 108,562 visits
Hartford Hospital in Connecticut— 108,249 visits
University Health Hospital in San Antonio, Texas — 107,405 visits
Morristown Medical Center — 103,674 visits
Reading Hospital-Tower Health in West Reading, Pennsylvania — 103,201 visits
Tucson Medical Center in Arizona — 99,854 visits
Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego — 95,446 visits
The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City — 98,780 visits
NewYork-Presbyterian Queens in Flushing — 98,492 visits
Stanford Medicine in Palo Alto, California — 97,698 visits
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami — 97,461 visits
Children's Medical Center in Dallas — 97,443 visits
Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Maryland — 96,476 visits
Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware — 95,771 visits
MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital in Yakima, Washington — 90,053 visits
Northside Hospital Gwinnett in Lawrenceville, Georgia — 89,148 visits
UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central in Colorado Springs, Colorado — 83,203 visits
UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts — 82,262 visits
This article originally appeared on Morristown Daily Record: Busiest hospital ERs in US: Hackensack, Morristown, St. Joe's on list