New York- Presbyterian Hospital is City’s Best, Survey Says
Jul. 8–New York-Presbyterian Hospital is the overwhelming choice as the top hospital in the city and is among the 10 best in the nation, a new survey shows.
Presbyterian ranked seventh among an elite group of medical facilities in this year’s U.S. News & World Report “Best Hospitals in America” survey, which evaluates all 6,007 U.S. hospitals.
Although no other city hospital made the magazine’s “Honor Roll” of 16, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York University Medical Center and the Hospital for Special Surgery all ranked highly in several categories.
“This honor reflects the outstanding work of all our staff and employees and their dedication to provide the highest quality service to all of our patients,” said Dr. Herbert Pardes, president and CEO of New York-Presbyterian.
The two-campus facility has seen its stature rise over three years, a trend Pardes expects to continue and partially credits to the 1998 merger of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in Washington Heights and New York Weill Cornell Medical Center on the East Side.
The ranking comes despite revelations that seven patients caught Legionnaires’ disease in the last 18 months from the water supply at the hospital’s Washington Heights campus. Two of them died from the disease, and a third died from what the hospital said was another medical problem.
New York-Presbyterian ranked in the top 40 in all 17 of the medical specialties evaluated by the magazine, including second in psychiatry, third in neurology and neurosurgery and fifth in pediatrics.
Other city hospitals that rated highly were: Memorial Sloan-Kettering, which ranked No. 1 in cancer care; Mount Sinai Medical Center came in third for geriatrics and the Hospital for Special Surgery was second best in orthopedics.
The magazine’s study is in its 16th year and equally weighs three elements: reputation, death rate and such care-related factors as nursing and patient services.
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