NYC Hospitals Ranked Among Nation's Best

NEW YORK, NY — New York City has six of the nation's best hospitals, according to a new ranking by the online health care information company Healthgrades.

The six earned the America's 250 Best Hospitals Award for 2021. One of the six, Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side, was ranked in the top 100.

The six medical centers are:

• NYU Langone Health Tisch Hospital
• Lenox Hill Hospital
• Mount Sinai Morningside
• Roosevelt Hospital
• Jamaica Hospital Medical Center
• NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens

The listing is alphabetical.

To compile the ranking, researchers looked at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid data for more than 4,500 hospitals nationwide. Researchers then analyzed how each performed across 32 conditions and procedures including heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, respiratory failure, sepsis and stroke.

In a release announcing the 2021 list, Healthgrades said that patients treated in ranked hospitals have a 27.4 percent lower chance of dying than if they were treated in hospitals that are unranked.

This also means that if all hospitals performed similarly to Healthgrades America’s Best Hospitals, 167,235 lives could potentially have been saved, the release says.

After identifying eligible hospitals, Healthgrades used a series of steps to compile its final rankings. Read the full methodology for the rankings.

“Now more than ever, consumers understand the importance of researching hospitals and finding the best organization to meet their health care needs,” Dr. Brad Bowman, chief medical officer of Healthgrades, said in a release.

“Especially in this era of COVID-19, we commend the recipients … for their commitment to providing superior outcomes and keeping their communities safe.”

You can see the full list of the top 50, 100 and 250 hospitals from Healthgrades on its website.