These NY Hospitals Recognized For Patient Safety, Experience

Twenty-seven New York hospitals were recognized by Healthgrades as excelling in at least one of two award categories. The 2019 awards recognized hospitals for patient safety and patient experience.

In a press release, Healthgrades said the awards “recognize the hospitals around the country that make patient safety a top priority and provide an outstanding patient experience.” Overall, 460 hospitals in the United States achieved the Healthgrades “Patient Safety Excellence Award” and 434 hospitals achieved the “Outstanding Patient Experience Award.”

In New York, 20 hospitals achieved the patient safety award and eight hospitals achieved the patient experience award. There was one hospital that achieved both awards.

Below are the New York hospitals that achieved the “Patient Safety Excellence Award”:

• Bon Secours Community Hospital, Port Jervis, NY
• Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center-Concourse Division, Bronx, NY
• Including:
• Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center-Fulton Division, Bronx, NY

• Cortland Regional Medical Center, Cortland, NY
• Glen Cove Hospital, Glen Cove, NY
• Huntington Hospital, Huntington, NY
• Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY
• Including:
• Long Island Jewish Forest Hills, Forest Hills, NY
• Long Island Jewish Valley Stream, Valley Stream, NY
• Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital, New Rochelle, NY
• Newark - Wayne Community Hospital, Newark, NY
• NewYork-Presbyterian/Lawrence Hospital, Bronxville, NY
• North Central Bronx Hospital, Bronx, NY
• North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY
• Including:
• North Shore University Hospital Syosset, Syosset, NY
• Oneida Healthcare Center, Oneida, NY
• Orange Regional Medical Center, Middletown, NY
• Oswego Hospital, Oswego, NY
• St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital, Newburgh, NY
• United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, NY

Below are the New York hospitals that achieved the “Outstanding Patient Experience Award”:

• Adirondack Medical Center, Saranac Lake, NY
• Hospital For Special Surgery, New York, NY
• John T. Mather Memorial Hospital, Port Jefferson, NY
• Northern Westchester Hospital, Mount Kisco, NY
• Oneida Healthcare Center, Oneida, NY
• Putnam Hospital Center, Carmel, NY
• Saint Francis Hospital Roslyn, Roslyn, NY
• White Plains Hospital, White Plains, NY

Healthgrades says the hospitals that achieved the patient safety award are among the top 10 percent of all short-term acute hospitals that report patient safety data. By Healthgrades’ estimate, nearly 128,000 patient safety incidents could have been avoided if all hospitals performed similarly to the ones recognized for safety.

You can read more about the awards and the methodology behind them here.