About Hackensack University Medical Center

Hackensack University Medical Center, a 803-bed nonprofit teaching and research hospital, was Bergen County’s first hospital founded in 1888. 

• First hospital in New Jersey and third in the nation to become a Magnet®-recognized hospital for nursing excellence, receiving its seventh consecutive designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center in 2024.
• The academic flagship of the Hackensack Meridian Health Network
• First hospital in New Jersey to be ranked among the Top 20 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report 2025-2026. 
• #1 hospital in the New York–New Jersey metro area by U.S. News & World Report 2025-2026
• NJ’s only nationally ranked hospital by U.S. News & World Report 2025-2026  in Pulmonology, Geriatrics, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Cancer, Ear Nose Throat
• Nationally ranked in Diabetes & Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Orthopedics, Cardiology, Heart & Vascular Surgery, Urology
• Home to the John Theurer Cancer Center, New Jersey’s only nationally ranked cancer center by U.S. News & World Report, ranked among the top 50 cancer centers nationwide.
• Home to facilities such as the Heart & Vascular Hospital; and the Sarkis and Siran Gabrellian Women’s and Children’s Pavilion, which houses the Donna A. Sanzari Women’s Hospital and the Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital, ranked #1 in the state in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2024-25 Best Children’s Hospital Report.