St. Francis, North Shore University Hospitals Among Best In State: US News

U.S. News and World Report released its annual rankings of the best hospitals in the country for 2017-18, ranking two local hospitals among the best in the state.

Eight Long Island hospitals made the New York rankings, which rated hospitals from No. 1 to 30.

The top ranked hospital on Long Island was St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn. The hospital, ranked No. 5 in the state, was nationally ranked in two specialties— cardiology and heart surgery as well as gastroenterology and GI surgery—and was recognized as being high performing in eight procedures/conditions:

• Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
• Aortic Valve Surgery
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Colon Cancer Surgery
• Heart Bypass Surgery
• Heart Failure
• Hip Replacement
• Lung Cancer Surgery

North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset was ranked No. 13 in New York and No. 3 on Long Island. The hospital was not nationally ranked in any categories, but was rated high performing in five adult procedures/conditions:

• Aortic Valve Surgery
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Colon Cancer Surgery
• Heart Failure
• Lung Cancer Surgery

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New York-Presbyterian Hospital was ranked as the number one hospital in New York. It was ranked across 14 adult and 10 pediatric specialties and was recognized as being high performing in seven adult procedures/conditions.

U.S. News ranked more than 4,500 medical centers in the U.S. in 25 specialties, procedures and conditions. The rankings also looked at the best hospitals in every state and 20 hospitals made it to the honor roll, a distinction given to hospitals that deliver exceptional treatment across multiple specialties.

According to the rankings, the best hospitals on Long Island are:

• St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn— No. 5 in state
• NYU Winthrop Hospital, Mineola— No. 6 in state
• North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset— No. 13 in state (tie)
• Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook— No. 13 in state (tie)
• Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park— No. 16 in state
• Huntington Hospital, Huntington— No. 17 in state
• South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside— No. 18 in state
• John T. Mather Memorial Hospital, Port Jefferson— No. 21 in state

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Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota topped the honor roll for the second consecutive year. The hospital was ranked across 15 specialties and ranked in the top five for 13 of the specialties. Cleveland Clinic was ranked number two and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore climbed up the rankings one spot this year to number three on the honor roll.

U.S. News ranked 152 hospitals nationally in at least one specialty and 535 hospitals were recognized as best regional hospitals for those seeking care close to home.

The methodology used by U.S. News is based largely on objective measures with more than 70 percent of the rankings relying on such data. The rankings also took into account survey answers from more than 125,000 physicians across the country about reputation. U.S. News also looked at five years of Medicare data and the number of patients treated in hospitals. The methodology was also updated to avoid penalizing hospitals for treating low-income patients or for accepting high-risk cases transferred from other hospitals. For the best regional hospitals, procedures and conditions rankings were emphasized more than specialty rankings.

The hospitals on U.S. News’ honor roll are:

• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
• Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland
• Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
• Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
• UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
• University of Michigan Hospital and Health Centers, Ann Arbor
• Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
• New-York Presbyterian Hospital, New York
• Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California
• Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
• Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
• UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Pittsburgh
• University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora
• Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Philadelphia
• Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina
• Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
• NYU Langone Medical Center, New York
• Mayo Clinic Phoenix, Phoenix

The specialties included in the rankings are:

• Cancer
• Cardiology and Heart Surgery
• Diabetes and Endocrinology
• Ear, Nose and Throat
• Gastroenterology and GI Surgery
• Geriatrics
• Gynecology
• Nephrology
• Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopedics
• Pulmonology
• Psychiatry
• Rehabilitation
• Rheumatology
• Urology

The procedures and conditions included in the rankings are:

• COPD
• Heart Bypass Surgery
• Heart Failure
• Hip Replacement
• Knee Replacement
• Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
• Aortic Valve Surgery
• Colon Cancer Surgery
• Lung Cancer Surgery

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