Newton Medical Center achieves prestigious ANCC Magnet Recognition®

NEWTON, NJ – MAY 27, 2025 – Atlantic Health’s Newton Medical Center today announced it has been designated as a Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). The ANCC’s Magnet Recognition Program® honors health care organizations for quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovations in professional nursing practice.

With this credential, Newton Medical Center joins the global community of organizations honored by the Magnet Recognition Program®. Currently, only 606 U.S. health care organizations have achieved Magnet recognition, approximately 10 percent of hospitals in the United States.

“Every day the nurses at Newton Medical Center strive for the highest level of clinical excellence and exceptional patient outcomes. This Magnet designation proves they are making the grade,” said Bethany Lichtenwalner, RN, Interim Chief Nursing Officer, Newton Medical Center. “I offer my congratulations and gratitude to our entire nursing team on this tremendous recognition and for all they do for our patients.”

The Magnet Model provides a framework for nursing practice, research, and measurement of outcomes. Through this framework, ANCC evaluates applicants across several components and dimensions to gauge an organization’s nursing excellence. The foundation of this model comprises various elements deemed essential to delivering superior patient care. These include the quality of nursing leadership and coordination and collaboration across specialties, as well as processes for measuring and improving the quality and delivery of care.

“Earning Newton’s first recognition as a Magnet institution is a powerful statement about the quality of care our team provides to our entire community,” said Bob Adams, President, Newton Medical Center. “It shows the world that Newton meets the gold standard when it comes to delivering innovative and personalized care.”

Newton Medical Center received seven exemplars, or examples of best practices, in areas including the following:

• The hospital’s performance in the avoidance of Falls with Injury outperformed the national benchmark for the majority of eight quarters on 100% of eligible inpatient units
• Newton’s data on Hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPI) stages 2 and above outperformed the national benchmark for the majority of eight quarters on all eligible inpatient units
• Data on Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) outperformed the national benchmark for the majority of eight quarters on 100% of the eligible inpatient units
• The hospital’s data for Central line-associated blood stream infection (CLABSI) outperformed the national benchmark for the majority of eight quarters on 100% of the eligible inpatient units
• Newton’s data for Patient Burns outperformed the national benchmark for the majority of eight quarters on 100% of the eligible inpatient units
• Data on Surgical Errors outperformed the national benchmark for the majority of eight quarters on 100% of the eligible inpatient units
• Data on Care coordination outperformed the national benchmark for the majority of eight quarters on 100% of the eligible inpatient units

The Magnet designation is conferred every four years to only those organizations that demonstrate sustained superiority in nursing care. Applicants undergo an extensive evaluation and members granted Magnet status must continue to meet rigorous standards.

 

About ANCC’s Magnet Recognition Program

The Magnet Recognition Program — administered by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the largest and most prominent nurses credentialing organization in the world — identifies health care organizations that provide the very best in nursing care and professionalism in nursing practice. The Magnet Recognition Program is the highest national honor for nursing excellence and provides consumers with the ultimate benchmark for measuring quality of care. For more information about the Magnet Recognition Program and current statistics, visit www.nursingworld.org/magnet.

 

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 21,000 team members and more than 6,800 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 eight 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 CentraState Medical Center 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 1,700 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 30 urgent care centers, Atlantic Visiting Nurse and Atlantic Health 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, has a medical school affiliation with Thomas Jefferson University, 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.