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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 readmission rate

HospitalRateDescription
National average24.7Actual national average
Beth Israel Medical Center29.1Worse than national rate
Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center29.1Worse than national rate
Eastern Long Island Hospital23.9No different than national rate
Franklin Hospital26.0No different than national rate
Glen Cove Hospital26.8No different than national rate
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center25.6No different than national rate
Huntington Hospital25.1No different than national rate
John T. Mather Memorial Hospital of Port Jefferson25.4No different than national rate
Long Beach Medical Center28.0No different than national rate
Long Island Jewish Medical Center24.9No different than national rate
Mercy Medical Center28.5Worse than national rate
Montefiore Medical Center27.9Worse than national rate
Mount Sinai Hospital26.8Worse than national rate
Nassau University Medical Center30.0Worse than national rate
New York-Presbyterian Hospital27.3Worse than national rate
North Shore University Hospital28.2Worse than national rate
Northport VA Medical Center26.0No different than national rate
NYU Hospitals Center23.2No different than national rate
Peconic Bay Medical Center22.0No different than national rate
Plainview Hospital26.4No different than national rate
South Nassau Communities Hospital26.9No different than national rate
Southampton Hospital27.0No different than national rate
Southside Hospital24.3No different than national rate
St. Catherine of Siena Hospital29.4Worse than national rate
St. Charles Hospital24.5No different than national rate
St. Francis Hospital Roslyn25.1No different than national rate
St. Joseph Hospital24.3No different than national rate
St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital32.1Worse than national rate
University Hospital ( Stony Brook )23.6No different than national rate
Winthrop-University Hospital26.2No different than national rate

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