New Jersey health-care facility complaint and enforcement route
NJDOH accepts complaints about hospitals and other licensed health-care facilities and describes how complaints, surveys, deficiencies, plans of correction, fines, and other enforcement remedies work.
New Jersey · Active · Implementation May 16, 2025
What it is
- What changed
- NJDOH's complaint page says patients, health-care facility employees, and members of the public may file complaints about hospitals, home health agencies, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other licensed facilities. NJDOH's enforcement page explains that complaints may be investigated by inspection, interviews, and record review; deficiencies can be cited; and remedies can include plans of correction, fines, admission curtailment, conditional licenses, suspension, revocation, or other remedies.
- Why it matters
- When a caregiver cannot resolve a discharge, patient-rights, facility-quality, or access problem inside a hospital or licensed facility, the state complaint and enforcement route is the next official pathway.
- Who it touches
- Family caregivers, Care providers and plans, People receiving carepatients, family caregivers, hospital patients, facility residents, health-care facility employees, licensed facilities
- What it does
- Gives people a right or protection; Requires something of providers, companies or agencies
Sources
- NJDOH health-care facility complaints and hotlines
- NJDOH health-care facility enforcement actions
- NJDOH patient rights
Last reviewed Jul 4, 2026. This is information, not legal advice; check the source for the current text.