"Three Long Island hospitals are among the nation’s top-performing medical centers, while three others ranked at the bottom, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported.
The federal agency last week gave its highest rating, five stars, to Northwell Health’s Huntington Hospital, Catholic Health’s St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center in Roslyn and NYU Langone Health’s hospitals, including NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island in Mineola. Across the nation, 13.9% of the nearly 3,100 hospitals rated by the agency, known as CMS, received the top rating.
The agency gave four stars to seven other local hospitals: Northwell’s Glen Cove Hospital, John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson, North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset and Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead; Catholic Health’s St. Catherine Of Siena Hospital in Smithtown and St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson; and Stony Brook University Hospital.
The agency’s ratings system is an “exhaustive” measure that “really covers all aspects of care,” said Dr. Peter Silver, senior vice president and chief quality officer at Northwell Health. Northwell hospitals’ strong showing, he said, “indicates that we're doing well in so many components of these metrics.”
Catholic Health’s chief medical officer, Dr. Jason Golbin, said its system aims to provide “truly exemplary” care. “No one wants to be in the hospital, but we want to make that visit as positive as it can be,” he said."
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