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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.

Avg. # of minutes before outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack who needed specialized care were transferred to another hospital

HospitalScore/RankFootnote
National averageN/A
State average72
Beth Israel Medical CenterN/A5
Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical CenterToo few cases1
Eastern Long Island HospitalToo few cases1
Franklin Hospital78
Glen Cove HospitalToo few cases1
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical CenterN/A5
Huntington HospitalToo few cases1
John T. Mather Memorial Hospital of Port Jefferson561
Long Beach Medical CenterToo few cases1
Long Island Jewish Medical CenterN/A5
Mercy Medical Center501
Montefiore Medical CenterN/A5
Mount Sinai Hospital105
Nassau University Medical CenterN/A3
New York-Presbyterian HospitalN/A5
North Shore University HospitalToo few cases1, 3
Northport VA Medical CenterN/A
NYU Hospitals CenterN/A5
Peconic Bay Medical CenterToo few cases1
Plainview Hospital55
South Nassau Communities HospitalN/A5
Southampton HospitalToo few cases1
Southside HospitalN/A5
St. Catherine of Siena HospitalToo few cases1, 3
St. Charles HospitalToo few cases1, 3
St. Francis Hospital RoslynN/A5
St. Joseph Hospital50
St. Luke's Roosevelt HospitalN/A5
University Hospital ( Stony Brook )N/A5
Winthrop-University HospitalN/A5

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