NYU Langone Medical Center Ranks in Top 10 Hospitals in the Country

New York University's Langone Medical Center was ranked No. 10 of all the hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report this week, having been ranked nationally in 12 specialties for adults. New York City was also the city with the highest concentration of regional hospitals that were ranked high and stood out in the report.

NYU Langone has 718 beds, took in 38,045 admissions in the past year and performed 14,866 inpatient and 42,305 outpatient surgeries last year, according to U.S. News & World Report. Over 50,000 people were admitted to the hospital's emergency room last year.

The scoring process for the honored hospitals worked like this: hospitals got points if they were ranked nationally in one of 16 specialties, and the higher their ranks, the more points they got, and the hospitals with the most points won spots on the 2016-2017 list. New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, coming in at No. 6 nationally, and Mount Sinai Hospital in East Harlem at No. 15 nationally were the other New York City hospitals in the top 20.

"These rankings speak to our national reputation for providing exceptional, multidisciplinary clinical care,” said Robert I. Grossman, CEO of NYU Langone Medical Center in a press release Tuesday. "Most important, they are a testament to the NYU Langone staff. Guided by the needs of our patients and their families, they deliver the expert, leading-edge, and compassionate care that draw people to us from around our city, our nation, and our world."

Twelve of the hospital's specialty areas made it to the top 10 in national rankings: cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, ear, nose, and throat, gastroenterology and GI surgery, geriatrics, orthopedics, neurology and neurosurgery, rheumatology, rehabilitation, pulmonology, and urology.

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