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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 failure death rate

HospitalRateDescription
National average11.6Actual national average
Beth Israel Medical Center10.6No different than national rate
Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center10.0No different than national rate
Eastern Long Island Hospital11.1No different than national rate
Franklin Hospital12.2No different than national rate
Glen Cove Hospital12.5No different than national rate
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center9.6Better than national rate
Huntington Hospital10.8No different than national rate
John T. Mather Memorial Hospital of Port Jefferson10.9No different than national rate
Long Beach Medical Center12.8No different than national rate
Long Island Jewish Medical Center11.5No different than national rate
Mercy Medical Center11.8No different than national rate
Montefiore Medical Center9.4Better than national rate
Mount Sinai Hospital9.2Better than national rate
Nassau University Medical Center14.3No different than national rate
New York-Presbyterian Hospital8.0Better than national rate
North Shore University Hospital13.2No different than national rate
Northport VA Medical Center10.9No different than national rate
NYU Hospitals Center7.1Better than national rate
Peconic Bay Medical Center11.6No different than national rate
Plainview Hospital13.2No different than national rate
South Nassau Communities Hospital10.6No different than national rate
Southampton Hospital12.7No different than national rate
Southside Hospital12.8No different than national rate
St. Catherine of Siena Hospital12.5No different than national rate
St. Charles Hospital8.8No different than national rate
St. Francis Hospital Roslyn10.0Better than national rate
St. Joseph Hospital10.8No different than national rate
St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital10.4No different than national rate
University Hospital ( Stony Brook )8.9Better than national rate
Winthrop-University Hospital11.2No different than national rate

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