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973-829-4665EmailApril 2, 2025, Morristown, NJ – For the 16th year, Atlantic Health System has earned a spot on the Great Place to Work® and Fortune’s list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For®.” Receiving a coveted acknowledgment on this list for the 16th year means Atlantic Health System continues to be one of the best companies to work for in the state and country, always laser focused on delivering quality-care and advancing our mission to build healthier communities.
“Our team works collaboratively to deliver the best care for every patient and family,” said Brian Gragnolati, President and CEO of Atlantic Health System. “We empower our talented team members to build healthier communities – that’s what makes Atlantic Health System a certified great place to work.”
“For 16 years, the best team in health care has been recognized for demonstrating what’s possible when you build a workplace culture on a foundation of trust, respect, and inclusion,” said Nikki Sumpter, Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Atlantic Health System. “To support delivering on our promise, we work to create a workplace where joy, purpose, and meaning thrive. Thank you to our entire team for sharing your pride in our extraordinary workplace.”
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.
“Leaders are the reason a business succeeds or fails,” says Michael C. Bush, CEO of Great Place To Work. “In the more than 30 years we’ve studied the workplace, our data proves that how you treat people shows up in your financial performance.” This year’s list of winners offers compelling insights into the workforce strategies needed to thrive in the AI era. “When you measure trust, you uncover the potential that exists in an organization,” Bush says. “Employees at companies on this list have higher levels of trust in their leaders and in their organization, unlocking their creativity, passion, and resilience.”
The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For List is highly competitive. Companies are only considered for the list if they are a Great Place to Work Certified™ organization with 1,000 or more employees in the U.S. Companies are assessed on their ability to create a great employee experience that cuts across job level, business unit, race, gender, age, disability status, or any aspect of employee identity. Earning a spot on the list is an important indicator of overall company performance. Companies on the 100 Best list consistently outperform the market and exceed their competitors on key business measures like retention and innovation. Great Place to Work is the only company culture award in America that selects winners based on how fairly employees are treated.
Atlantic Health System is the only New Jersey-based health care company to be recognized on Fortune’s list for 16 years. Atlantic Health System appears alongside many of the nation’s most successful organizations, such as Cisco, Hilton and Wegmans Food Markets. The entire 2025 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, celebrate and invest in our team members, including:
- Newly Enhanced Tuition Advancement and Reimbursement–We are proud to offer Tuition Advancement as an option within our program, allowing team members to receive their tuition award up-front as opposed to waiting to complete the course.
- Internal Educational Conferences–We provide internal educational and learning development conferences for our leaders of people across the organization, starting at the Assistant Manager and Supervisor level to Senior Leadership, to continue to inspire and develop their leadership skills.
- Annual Turkey Toss—At Thanksgiving, 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 21,000 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 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.
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 more than 8.4 million U.S. employees. Of those, over 670,000 responses were received from employees at eligible companies, and this list is based on that feedback. 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.
About Great Place To Work
As the global authority on workplace culture, Great Place To Work brings 30 years of groundbreaking research and data to help every place become a great place to work for all. Its proprietary platform and Great Place To Work Model help companies evaluate the experience of every employee, with exemplary workplaces becoming Great Place To Work Certified and receiving recognition on a coveted Best Workplaces™ list. Follow Great Place To Work on LinkedIn, X, and Instagram or visit greatplacetowork.com and sign up for the newsletter to learn more.