New Jersey
Ranking Highlights
| 2020 Rank | Change from Baseline | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall Ranking | 16 | +9 |
| Access and Affordability | 17 | 0 |
| Prevention and Treatment | 16 | +13 |
| Avoidable Hospital Use and Cost | 35 | -1 |
| Healthy Lives | 10 | +1 |
| Disparity | 26 | +1 |
| Medicaid Expansion (as of Jan. 2018) | Yes |
Demographics
| New Jersey | Average | |
|---|---|---|
| Total Population | 8,804,517 | 322,324,172 |
| Median Household Income | $92,192 | $67,877 |
| Below 200% of Federal Poverty Level (FPL) | 22% | 30% |
| % White Race, Non-Hispanic | 55% | 60% |
| % Black Race, Non-Hispanic | 13% | 12% |
| % Other Race, Non-Hispanic | 12% | 9% |
| % Hispanic Ethnicity | 21% | 18% |
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Highlights
Top Ranked Indicators
- Suicide deaths
- Nursing home residents with an antipsychotic medication
- Children who did not receive needed mental health care
Bottom Ranked Indicators
- Primary care spending as share of total, age 65 and older
- Medicare spending per beneficiary
- Hospitals with lower-than-average patient experience ratings
Most Improved Indicators
- Children who did not receive needed mental health care
- Central line-associated blood stream infection (CLABSI)
- Home health patients without improved mobility
Indicators That Worsened the Most
- Adults with any mental illness reporting unmet need
- Preventable hospitalizations ages 18–64
- Drug poisoning deaths
Comparison with the U.S. Average
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Estimated Gains New Jersey Could Expect if Performance Improves to Match Top States
| Top State in the U.S. | Top State in the Mid-Atlantic region | Gains for New Jersey |
|---|---|---|
| 382,432 | 361,880 | more adults and children would be insured |
| 411,464 | 342,887 | fewer adults would skip needed care because of its cost |
| 285,492 | 203,923 | more adults would receive age- and gender-appropriate cancer screenings |
| 21,187 | 15,134 | more children (ages 19–35 months) would receive all recommended vaccines |
| 123,700 | 55,023 | fewer employer-insured adults and elderly Medicare beneficiaries would seek care in emergency departments for nonemergent or primary-care-treatable conditions |
| 1,464 | 0 | fewer premature deaths (before age 75) would occur from causes that are potentially treatable or preventable with timely and appropriate care |
Estimated impact if this state’s performance improved to the rate of two benchmark levels — a national benchmark set at the level of the best-performing state and a regional benchmark set at the level of the top-performing state in region (www.bea.gov: Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, New England, Plains, Rocky Mountains, Southeast, Southwest, West). Benchmark states have an estimated impact of zero (0).
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