April 4, 2024, Morristown, NJ – For the 15th year, Atlantic Health System has been named to the Great Place to Work® and Fortune’s list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For®.” One of only two New Jersey based companies on the list, Atlantic Health System continues to prove it is one of the best companies to work for in the country, laser focused on delivering quality care and advancing our mission to build healthier communities.
“Our talented team works collaboratively to deliver extraordinary care for every patient and family,” said Brian Gragnolati, President and CEO of Atlantic Health System. “We empower team members to advance our mission of building healthier communities – that’s what makes Atlantic Health System a great place to work.”
“For 15 years, the best team in health care has shown what’s possible when a workplace culture is founded on trust, respect and inclusion,” said Nikki Sumpter, Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Atlantic Health System. “Thank you to all our team members, for caring for one another and every patient. Our team is the reason we have so much to celebrate.”
Driven by innovation, diversity and celebration, Atlantic Health team members enjoy sharing in each other’s successes across the system’s 550 sites of care, including Morristown Medical Center, Overlook Medical Center, Chilton Medical Center, Newton Medical Center, Hackettstown Medical Center, Goryeb Children’s Hospital, Atlantic Rehabilitation Institute, Atlantic Medical Group, CentraState and one of the largest Accountable Care Organizations in the country.
“When people ask about what sets the Best Companies apart from their competitors, it’s one key ingredient: trust,” says Michael C. Bush, CEO of Great Place To Work. “When employees trust their leaders, their colleagues, and the organization, they become empowered to reach their full potential.”
Great Place to Work is the only company culture award in America that selects winners based on how fairly employees are treated. Companies are assessed on how well they are creating a great employee experience that cuts across race, gender, age, disability status, or any aspect of who employees are or what their role is. The only New Jersey-based health care company on Fortune’s list, Atlantic Health System appears alongside many of the nation’s most successful organizations, such as Hilton, American Express, and Wegman’s Food Markets. The entire Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list can be viewed here.
Atlantic Health System is always creating new programs and expanding existing opportunities to support and celebrate team members, including:
- Annual Turkey Toss—Gifting team members with their choice of a turkey, ham, fruit basket or Thanksgiving pie.
- CELEBRATE Platform—We use the CELEBRATE platform to recognize team members for exemplifying our PRIDE Values. Our enhanced platform offers a variety of online tools so team members at all levels can recognize and celebrate each other.
- Enhanced Family Planning Benefits–Atlantic Health System offers a number of inclusive benefits/initiatives to support team members’ unique paths to parenthood and beyond. The benefits include a personalized digital experience connected to your OB provider and a Health Advocate to support you, as well as a leading fertility benefits solution that supports an inclusive family-building benefit for every unique path to parenthood. Additional benefits include parental leave salary continuation supplement program, adoption, and surrogacy assistance.
About Atlantic Health System
Atlantic Health System is at the forefront of medicine, setting standards for quality health care in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the New York metropolitan area. Powered by a workforce of 20,000 team members and 5,440 affiliated physicians dedicated to building healthier communities, Atlantic Health System serves more than half of the state of New Jersey including 14 counties and 7.5 million people. The not-for-profit system offers more than 550 sites of care, including its seven hospitals: Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, NJ, Overlook Medical Center in Summit, NJ, Newton Medical Center in Newton, NJ, Chilton Medical Center in Pompton Plains, NJ, Hackettstown Medical Center in Hackettstown, NJ, Goryeb Children’s Hospital in Morristown, NJ, Atlantic Rehabilitation Institute in Madison, NJ and through its partnership with CentraState Healthcare System in Freehold, NJ.
The system includes Atlantic Medical Group, part of a physician enterprise that makes up one of the largest multispecialty practices in New Jersey with more than 1,600 physicians and advance practice providers. Joined with Atlantic Accountable Care Organization and Optimus Healthcare Partners they form part of Atlantic Alliance, a Clinically Integrated Network of more than 2,500 health care providers throughout northern and central NJ.
Atlantic Health System provides care for the full continuum of health care needs through 24 urgent care centers, Atlantic Visiting Nurse and Atlantic Anywhere Virtual Visits. Facilitating the connection between these services on both land and air is the transportation fleet of Atlantic Mobile Health.
Atlantic Health System leads the Healthcare Transformation Consortium, a partnership of six regional hospitals and health systems dedicated to improving access and affordability and is a founding member of the PIER Consortium – Partners in Innovation, Education, and Research – a streamlined clinical trial system that will expand access to groundbreaking research across five health systems in the region.
Atlantic Health System has a medical school affiliation with Thomas Jefferson University and is home to the regional campus of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Morristown and Overlook Medical Centers and is the official health care partner of the New York Jets.
About the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For
Great Place To Work selected the 100 Best list by gathering and analyzing more than 1.3 million confidential survey responses representing the experiences of 8.2 million U.S. employees. Organizations are assessed on their efforts to create generous, supportive, high-performance work experiences for every employee in the organization. Companies must be Great
Place To Work Certified™ with 1,000 or more employees in the U.S. and cannot be a government agency. Read the full methodology. To be considered, all companies use the Great Place To Work Trust Index™ survey. To get on this list next year, start here.
About Great Place to Work®
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place become a great place to work for all. Its proprietary platform and For All™ Model help companies evaluate the experience of every employee, with exemplary workplaces becoming Great Place To Work Certified or receiving recognition on a coveted Best Workplaces™ List. Follow Great Place To Work on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram or visit greatplacetowork.com and sign up for the newsletter to learn more.