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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 55 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 hospitals' 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 April 2013 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (Read more about this data)

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Mortality and re-admission rates


Mortality rates focus on whether patients died within 30 days of hospitalization. Readmission rates focus on whether patients were hospitalized again within 30 days. Death rates and rates of readmission show whether a hospital is doing its best to prevent complications, teach patients at discharge, and ensure patients make a smooth transition to their home or other setting. The rates, per 1,000 patients, are based on people with Medicare who are 65 and older and take into account how sick patients were upon initial hospitalization.


Heart attack death rate

HospitalRateDescription
National average15.5Actual national average
Beth Israel Medical Center16.0No different than national rate
Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center16.0No different than national rate
Eastern Long Island Hospital14.3No different than national rate
Franklin Hospital14.6No different than national rate
Glen Cove Hospital14.3No different than national rate
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center14.1No different than national rate
Huntington Hospital16.0No different than national rate
John T. Mather Memorial Hospital of Port Jefferson12.6Better than national rate
Long Beach Medical Center15.8No different than national rate
Long Island Jewish Medical Center16.4No different than national rate
Mercy Medical Center14.3No different than national rate
Montefiore Medical Center13.5No different than national rate
Mount Sinai Hospital13.9No different than national rate
Nassau University Medical Center17.8No different than national rate
New York-Presbyterian Hospital11.4Better than national rate
North Shore University Hospital12.5Better than national rate
Northport VA Medical Center16.0No different than national rate
NYU Hospitals Center10.1Better than national rate
Peconic Bay Medical Center15.2No different than national rate
Plainview Hospital15.2No different than national rate
South Nassau Communities Hospital14.0No different than national rate
Southampton Hospital14.5No different than national rate
Southside Hospital13.6No different than national rate
St. Catherine of Siena Hospital12.0Better than national rate
St. Charles Hospital15.4No different than national rate
St. Francis Hospital Roslyn11.4Better than national rate
St. Joseph Hospital16.6No different than national rate
St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital13.2No different than national rate
University Hospital ( Stony Brook )13.3No different than national rate
Winthrop-University Hospital14.3No different than national rate

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