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Mount Sinai Beth Israel Receives 2017 National Quality Recognition, Rated Top 100 Hospital in Nation for Patient Safety for Cardiac Care, Interventional Coronary Care, and Stroke Care

Mount Sinai Beth Israel Rated Top 100 Hospital for Medical Excellence in Interventional Coronary Care

  • NEW YORK, NY
  • (August 03, 2017)

Mount Sinai Beth Israel has recently received numerous quality awards, including ranking as a top 100 Hospital in nation for Patient Safety for Cardiac Care, Interventional Coronary Care, and Stroke Care and a top 100 hospital for Medical Excellence in Interventional Cardiac Care. The awards and rankings were presented by CareChex®, an information service of Quantros, Inc. CareChex provides clinical, financial, and patient satisfaction findings to consumers, providers, and purchasers of U.S. medical care.

Unlike other publicly available quality ratings, CareChex provides a composite evaluation of all components of medical quality including process of care, outcomes of care, and patient experiences.

“I’m proud that Mount Sinai Beth Israel has been recognized for the exceptional care that we provide for our patients,” said John Fox, MD, Director of the Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Catheterization Lab at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. “This award is a testament to our extraordinary team of interventional cardiac specialists who are saving lives every day.”

“Mount Sinai Beth Israel patients receive excellent care in our inpatient settings and emergency department and these awards reflect the hard work of our clinicians,” said Jeremy Boal, MD, President, Mount Sinai Downtown and Chief Clinical Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System.


About the Mount Sinai Health System

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the nation’s leading integrated academic health systems and one of the largest in the New York metropolitan area. Its comprehensive system includes seven hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, over 600 research and clinical laboratories, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and the Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing. Together, the Health System comprises approximately 48,000 employees, more than 9,000 physicians, and 8,600 nurses.

As a leading learning health system, Mount Sinai combines clinical expertise with scientific discovery to improve patient care while training the next generation of health care and biomedical leaders. The Health System provides care across every stage of life, from prenatal care through geriatrics, while advancing personalized medicine through artificial intelligence, data science, and biomedical research.

Mount Sinai is consistently recognized among the nation’s leading academic health systems for patient care, research, and education. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked No. 1 in New York by Newsweek and No. 5 on the magazine’s World’s Best Hospitals list. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ranks No. 11 among U.S. medical schools and No. 1 among freestanding medical schools for National Institutes of Health funding, reflecting the strength of its scientific enterprise and leadership in biomedical research.