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For the first time, three New York hospitals made the U.S. News and World Report ranking of the nation's top 20 medical centers.
New York-Presbyterian was the city's top hospital, as it reliably has been for years, in the 2009 rankings posted to the magazine's Web site.
But for the first time, two other city institutions joined it on the magazine's "honor roll" of outstanding hospitals: NYU Medical Center and Mount Sinai Medical Center.
"New York is hot. Everybody wants to come here," said Dr. Herbert Pardes, president and CEO of New York-Presbyterian.
"We get the best medical students, the best residents. People know we are knocking the ball out of the park. The best doctors come here because they say we are the best. It's a circular effect in the right direction."
New York-Presbyterian, the nation's largest nonprofit, nonsectarian hospital, sees 2 million patients a year, treats the most burns and performs the most heart transplants.
"We take care of everybody. You're the wealthy head of a company? That's fine. You don't have a penny in your pocket? That's fine, too," Pardes said.
The hospital won special kudos for its psychiatry and neurology departments and for its treatment of kidney disorders and diabetes.
The magazine looked at 4,861 medical centers, winnowing them down to 170 hospitals that were judged excellent in at least one of 16 specialties. The top 20 were judged tops in six or more specialties.
"Fewer than one half of 1% of hospitals received this honor. It is an extraordinary achievement," said Dr. Kenneth Davis, president and CEO of Mount Sinai Medical Center.
The rankings take into account factors ranging from reputation to death rates to quality of care. For the first time this year, patient safety was included.
The magazine's annual rankings carry a lot of influence - both among patients looking for care and doctors looking for work, translating into money and prestige for the hospitals who make the 20-year-old list.
"This recognition highlights a tradition of excellence at NYU Langone Medical Center and serves as yet another reminder of how learning and innovation can come together to make our institution one of the best in the nation," said Dr. Robert Grossman, CEO of NYU Langone Medical Center.
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Jul 16, 2009 at 03:43 PM Anonymous Says:
I've used all 3, I had a great experience with all three, should we only need it for simchos.
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Jul 16, 2009 at 03:40 PM Anonymous Says:
We constantly hear that Maimonides is the best for many different things. Why aren't they on this list??????
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Jul 16, 2009 at 03:46 PM ........obverser Says:
not me...take me to maimonidees any day of the week...it was ranked #1 on ninth avenue in brooklyn....gevaldig
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Jul 16, 2009 at 04:14 PM Anonymous Says:
How can you trust the doctors? Aren't they all liars? All looking to cover their backs? Aren't they ZioNazis and soneh-Yisrael Amalekim?
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Jul 16, 2009 at 04:11 PM Raphael Kaufman Says:
And yet Johns Hopkins in Baltimore is consistantly rated #1. Being in the top 20 is good but being number 1 is better.
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Jul 16, 2009 at 05:36 PM Check again Says:
Maimonides was rated top 50 in the nation for pulmonary disease.
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Jul 16, 2009 at 06:46 PM Anonymous Says:
“ Maimonides was rated top 50 in the nation for pulmonary disease. ”
To Check again: nothing helps with people who are blind! Maimonides won't be in the top twenty because they don't do everything, they don't do heart, liver, or kidney transplants, nor bone marrow transplants. BUT they are great at what they do, like the Stroke Unit led by Dr Steven Rudolph (btw, formerly at mt sinia) Cancer treatment led by Drs Cooper, Donohue (formerly from NYU.....) And Breast Surgery program led by former Chief of Breast Surgery at Memorial, Cardiac Surgery by Jacobowich
(From Lenox) and last but not least the Cardiac Institue let by world famous Dr. Jacob Shani.
So! I would say they are an overall great institution, which doesn't deserve the heimishe loshon horah.....
The grass is always greener on the other side of the.... bridge!!!
What about pulmonary care led by Dr kuper who was the Dr of many gedolim chassidish and yeshivish!
There are some who mock that institution even when they get it right, which is an emmesa shandeh!
This is from a sinia patient who has been treated at maimo too.... An objective patient.
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Jul 16, 2009 at 07:13 PM Anonymous Says:
“ We constantly hear that Maimonides is the best for many different things. Why aren't they on this list?????? ”
mimo is the best hospital to get you infected...then you get tranffered to the city.
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Jul 16, 2009 at 08:05 PM Really Says:
#7...they want to work in brooklyn?...i wonder where they live?
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Jul 16, 2009 at 08:04 PM Kidney Donor & Kidney Matchmaker Says:
Someone whom I am close with had an angiogram and pacemaker installed at Maimonidies. The hospital, doctors and other staff was awesome!!! Really fantastic, could not have done a better job. And they were also so nice.
I donated a kidney at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, and Dr. Stuart Greenstein, who is a Shomer Shabbos kidney transplant surgeon at that hospital is one of the greatest surgeons and one of the nicest people in this world! Dr. Greenstein is a very special person and does a lot of chesed. When he goes to Israel - he goes to visit ex-patients!
I am also a kidney matchmaker - and I had a match recently at Mount. Sinai. They were great. And the kidney donor did so great - had no pain after her kidney donation and went home the next day!
A very special woman from Williamsburg is in desperate need of a kidney. She is a teacher and a big Tzedekes and only around in her 40's. If someone would like to donate a kidney to her and help save her life, please contact me. It would be a great z'chus. My project is endorsed by Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser.
Chaya Lipschutz
KidneyMitzvah.com
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Jul 16, 2009 at 09:13 PM Former Patient Says:
As a former patient of Mount Sinai, I have to say that it was a real pleasure to use their hospital. The doctors, nurses and staff are really nice. The hospital is really clean. All in all I am very impressed. And I highly recommend this hospital.
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Jul 16, 2009 at 10:40 PM Anonymous Says:
NYU may be a good hospital, but when you have a problem with a kid just STAY AWAY FROM NYU! they have special teams of people to develop any innocent cut burn or bruise into a severe child abuse case. they can drive some innocent people's lives in a live hell.
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Jul 17, 2009 at 01:01 AM Anonymous Says:
“ not me...take me to maimonidees any day of the week...it was ranked #1 on ninth avenue in brooklyn....gevaldig ”
You are right its the best hospital in brooklyn, the fact that bigger and larger hospitals fare better is to expected, mmc is a relatively younger hospital than those three and the fact that you can't get over its successes tells us a lot about how they are doing!!
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Jul 17, 2009 at 12:53 AM Anonymous Says:
“ mimo is the best hospital to get you infected...then you get tranffered to the city. ”
Since you haven't read the daily news editorial last week about maimo being much lower in infections that the three who made the top list, therefore I would suggest you do a little bit of research before you blog. Thank You,
A former surgery patient at MMC, operated by Dr Danny Sherwinter shlit"a, (a superb surgeon with a wonderful personality)
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Jul 17, 2009 at 12:47 AM Anonymous Says:
“ #7...they want to work in brooklyn?...i wonder where they live? ”
Gradeh, I believe that Dr Steven Rudollph davens in the city, where he lives. He is a frum shomer shabbos doctor who saved my bubby's life twice, a real mentch, and he is from mt sinia originally where worked before coming to maimo to head the Stroke institute at maimonides. My bubby has also had a great cardiac team begining with everyones favorite Dr Josh Kerstein, class A+ cardiologist, to Dr Shani a renonwed cardiac interventionalist who did the angioplasty and the stenting, to Dr Yisachar Greenberg (frum ben torah guy who trained at Yale......) From the Electrophysiolgy lab at Maimo!
Yasher Koach for what you did for my family, you guys gave us our bobby back, with hashems help. Keep up the good work!
You might not have made the top, but you guys are top notch. Where else can you find frum ehrliche doctors who trained at the great institutions, who have middos and are bnei torah, who are familiar with halacha, that together with their great work brings all the heimishe to the cardiac center at Maimo.
Keep up the good work.
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Jul 17, 2009 at 06:09 AM Anonymous Says:
The bottom line is, if one has a good expierence during a hospital stay anda good outcome that hospital and the doctors are great. If chas v'shalom they have a bad outcome that hospital and the physicians are horrible. That is human nature.
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Jul 17, 2009 at 06:08 AM UBET Says:
A hospital can have great doctors, but if the nurses are rotten, the hospitals reputation is ruined. Everyone knows exactly what I mean, no need to mention hospital's name.
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Jul 17, 2009 at 07:36 AM Anonymous Says:
“ A hospital can have great doctors, but if the nurses are rotten, the hospitals reputation is ruined. Everyone knows exactly what I mean, no need to mention hospital's name. ”
Lehavdil, untz frumme, are very much at fault for a big part of that issue, I'm sure you know of the abuses that the hospital takes from the heimishe people, we are very demanding, we expect to be ahead of the line for services, for rooms, for surgery, for cat scans, eveybody knows somebody with protektzia at maimo, and therefore the nurses who aren't stupid see the abuse of power, that we have through Hatzloah, bikur Cholims etc, which is a major factor in the above mentioned issue.
Secondly, if a family is nice to the nurses they would react the same way, good morning, thank you, please, etc.
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Jul 17, 2009 at 07:26 AM Anonymous Says:
Mt sinai should not be on the list. It is run by students while ur the guinea pig
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Jul 17, 2009 at 11:11 AM Anonymous Says:
“ Mt sinai should not be on the list. It is run by students while ur the guinea pig ”
So true... I had my first baby there, and they stuck me with some resident who was less than a year out of med school. He nearly killed both me and the baby. Suffice it to say my other kids were all born elsewhere...
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Jul 17, 2009 at 11:37 AM MS Says:
I think the best hospital is Hackinsack Medical Center. It is a Beautiful hospital and the nurses, doctors and staff were really amazing. I felt like I was in a hotel, aside from the late night wake up calls to check my temperature, blood pressure..ect. The rooms have a couch, fold up bed for the spouses....
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Jul 17, 2009 at 01:09 PM Anonymous Says:
“ So true... I had my first baby there, and they stuck me with some resident who was less than a year out of med school. He nearly killed both me and the baby. Suffice it to say my other kids were all born elsewhere... ”
All 3 hospitals on the list are teaching hospitals, so unless you say "no residents", you'll get residents assigned to your case. A lot of my doctors are at NY-Pres & I've always been asked if I minded having a resident examine me. If I said I minded, then the resident did something else for a while.