Mount Sinai’s Kravis Children’s Hospital Ranked Nationally in Six Specialties by U.S. News and World Report
Mount Sinai’s Kravis Children's Hospital has once again been ranked among the country’s top children’s hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, in its “Best Children’s Hospitals” guidebook for 2017-2018.
The Kravis Children’s Hospital ranked in six of ten specialties, and achieved top 25 rankings in Diabetes & Endocrinology, and Gastroenterology & GI Surgery. The rankings, published annually, recognize the nation’s top 50 children’s hospitals in 10 pediatric specialty areas.
Committed to providing exceptional care to children and their families, Mount Sinai has created an alliance with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), one of the nation's leading children's hospitals. Patients in New York have access to CHOP experts in fetal medicine, pediatric cardiac care, and pediatric oncology. It is intended to give patients access to the newest treatments and expertise from Mount Sinai and CHOP experts close to home at select Mount Sinai locations.
"This year’s rankings reflect the excellent and cutting-edge care provided to our pediatric patients and their families,” said Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System. “We are grateful to each one of our employees—from the physicians and nurses to the social workers and staff—for making this recognition possible through their tireless work."
"We continue to recruit renowned experts to our medical teams, and the excellence we have demonstrated at Mount Sinai's Kravis Children’s Hospital is demonstrated by these rankings," said Dennis Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and President for Academic Affairs, Mount Sinai Health System. "Innovative programs, such as our partnership with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, will expand access to unparalleled care for children in the New York area."
The Kravis Children’s Hospital, which sees more than 70,000 outpatient visits and 3,000 inpatient stays each year, ranked in the following specialties:
- Diabetes & Endocrinology: No. 16
- Gastroenterology & GI Surgery: No. 23
- Nephrology: No. 39
- Neurology & Neurosurgery: No. 27 (tie)
- Pulmonology: No. 32
- Urology: No. 30 (tie)
"Our multidisciplinary teams, including doctors, nurses, and child life specialists, are superb at implementing team-based efforts to optimize the patient and family experience as treatment progresses,” said David L. Reich, MD, President of The Mount Sinai Hospital. “We strive to provide the highest quality of care to children of all ages."
"Our goal is to ensure that every patient receives the best possible care, leading to the best possible outcomes, in a supportive environment focused on the child and his or her family," says Lisa Satlin, MD, System Chair of Pediatrics for the Mount Sinai Health System.
To learn more about the Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai Health System, please visit http://www.mountsinai.org/patient-care/service-areas/children.
About the Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, over 400 outpatient practices, nearly 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.
Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,300 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties.
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