Mount Sinai Named One of New York State’s Safest Hospitals By the Niagara Health Quality Coalition
The Mount Sinai Medical Center has been named one of New York State’s safest hospitals for 2011, as reported in the annual hospital study conducted by the nonprofit Niagara Health Quality Coalition (NHQC).
Mount Sinai was also the only hospital in New York State to receive the NHQC’s highest safety rating for the performance of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, and was the only hospital named to the NHQC "Honor Roll" for that critical cardiac procedure.
The NHQC is an independent organization based in Williamsville, NY, that uses federally endorsed hospital quality indicators to measure hospital performance. It makes its finding available to the public in several ways, including an annual "Hospital Report Card." More detailed information is available at the NHQC website at www.myhealthfinder.com.
Its "Safest Hospitals" list is based on several patient safety indicators, including mortality rates for 14 different procedures; patient safety rates for 11 separate conditions including post-operative sepsis and post-operative blood clots; any instances of foreign bodies retained during surgery and transfusions of the wrong blood type; whether hospitals performed a minimum number of cases to claim competency on six complex surgeries; and hospital participation in two national safety programs.
The NHQC also issues a similar annual "Watch List" of hospitals that performed poorly overall in key patient safety indicators.
About The Mount Sinai Medical Center
The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses both The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Established in 1968, Mount Sinai School of Medicine is one of few medical schools embedded in a hospital in the United States. It has more than 3,400 faculty in 32 departments and 15 institutes, and ranks among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institute of Health funding and by U.S. News & World Report. The school received the 2009 Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Service from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
The Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is a 1,171-bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility and one of the nation's oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital among the nation's best hospitals based on reputation, patient safety, and other patient-care factors. Nearly 60,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients last year, and approximately 530,000 outpatient visits took place.
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