Winthrop named one of the best

U.S. News and World Report named Winthrop-University Hospital of Mineola one of the best hospitals in the New York metro area for 2016-17. The hospital has also been commended for 13 high performing types of care, as well as earning a national best ranking in geriatrics. It comes in as No. 8 on the list of best hospitals in New York, according to U.S. News and World Report.

In their 27th year, the U.S. News Best Hospitals ranking is a guide intended to inform patients of exceptional hospitals in the country based on “patient survival, the number of times a given procedure is performed, infection rates, adequacy of nurse staffing and more,” according to a statement from Winthrop.
The organization began with 4,667 hospitals for the 2016-17 ranking, U.S. News’ website stated. Among those, 153 hospitals were ranked in at least one specialty and 1,628 received a high performing rating in one or more procedures, specialties or conditions.

To be considered for this year’s ranking, a hospital had to meet any of the four following criteria: it is a teaching hospital, affiliated with a medical school, has at least 200 beds set up and staffed or has at least 100 beds and provides at least four of eight high-quality care technologies.

Ben Harder, chief of health analysis at U.S. News, said that the organization “evaluates nearly 5,000 hospitals nationwide. A hospital that emerged from our analysis as one of the best has much to be proud of.”

Hospitals are ranked by U.S. News based on 16 specialties that include: cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, ear, nose and throat, gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery, geriatrics, gynecology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology and urology.
The remaining four specialties are ophthalmology, psychiatry, rehabilitation and rheumatology. Their ranking is determined by a survey of physician specialists and reputation, according to the U.S. News website.

Winthrop has been recognized for these eight high performing specialties: diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery, gynecology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology and urology. The five procedures and conditions of common care for which the hospital was acknowledged are: aortic valve, colon cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart bypass and heart failure, a Winthrop news release said.

John F. Collins, Winthrop's President and CEO, said, “These impressive rankings, both regional and national, are a testament to the high quality care that is delivered each day across a range of specialties by our superior clinical team.”
The Children’s Medical Center at Winthrop was named to U.S. News & World Report’s Best Children’s Hospitals rankings in June, as stated in a Winthrop news release, for outstanding success in pediatric diabetes and endocrinology, pediatric urology and pediatric pulmonology.

NYU Langone Medical Center, with whom Winthrop is in talks regarding a potential merger, is number 10 out of 20 on the Best Hospitals Honor Roll. The top 20 hospitals were compiled into an Honor Roll based on the total points they received as a result of their Best Hospitals ranking of specialties, procedures and conditions.

U.S. News, along with a research organization based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., RTI International, produced the Best Hospitals ranking which will be published in the guidebook entitled, “Best Hospitals 2017.”