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The federal government collects records on hospital performance in many categories. You can use this database to find hospitals in your area, and a few big ones in the city, to see how they did on 65 different measures of hospital performance. Choose to see all the data on one hospital using the box on the left or by clicking on one hospital on the map. Or you can first choose a category of measure -- mortality rates, for example -- and then a condition in the box on the right to get a table of all the hospitalsĂ­ scores on that one measure. If you are in an individual hospital page and a single datapoint catches your eye, click on the description to see the scores of all hospitals. Data released in October 2012 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (Read more about this data)

Choose your hospital

Choose a category and select a condition

Process of care measure


These measures show how often hospitals give recommended treatments known to get the best results for patients with certain medical conditions or surgical procedures. Information about these treatments are taken from the patients’ records and most are converted into a percentage; some scores are in minutes, where indicated. The measures are based on scientific evidence about treatments that are known to get the best results.

Surgery patients whose urinary catheters were removed on the first or second day after surgery.

HospitalScore/RankFootnote
National average92
State average91
Beth Israel Medical Center912
Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center90
Eastern Long Island Hospital791
Franklin Hospital962
Glen Cove Hospital972
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center942
Huntington Hospital882
John T. Mather Memorial Hospital of Port Jefferson99
Long Beach Medical Center441
Long Island Jewish Medical Center902
Mercy Medical Center1002
Montefiore Medical Center832
Mount Sinai Hospital882
Nassau University Medical Center1002
New York-Presbyterian Hospital982
North Shore University Hospital882
Northport VA Medical Center912
NYU Hospitals Center992
Peconic Bay Medical Center962
Plainview Hospital972
South Nassau Communities Hospital952
Southampton Hospital84
Southside Hospital972
St. Catherine of Siena Hospital1002
St. Charles Hospital1002
St. Francis Hospital Roslyn972
St. Joseph Hospital912
St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital982
University Hospital ( Stony Brook )952
Winthrop-University Hospital972

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