Awards and Accolades
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2012 Gold Achievement Award Granted by American Heart Association for Heart Failure Outcomes Stony Brook University Hospital has once again received the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines® Heart Failure Gold Quality Performance Achievement Award. The award recognizes Stony Brook's commitment and success in implementing excellent care for patients with heart failure, according to evidence-based guidelines. To receive the award, Stony Brook achieved 85% or higher adherence for at least 24 months to core standard levels of care as outlined by the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology secondary prevention guidelines for heart failure patients. More |
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U.S. News Ranks Stony Brook Medicine 10th in NY Metro Area Stony Brook Medicine was ranked 10th in the New York metropolitan area in the 2011 U.S. News & World Report's "Best Hospitals" Metro Area rankings, released in March. The rankings recognize 180 hospitals in the New York metro area with a record of high performance in key medical specialties, including heart and heart surgery, among others. More |
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2010 Silver Achievement Award Granted by American Heart Association for Heart Failure Outcomes The American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure program granted Stony Brook Medicine the silver achievement award in recognition of our demonstrated top performance in terms of all heart failure indicators aggregated over a 12-month period. The award means that Stony Brook will be recognized as part of the International Scientific Sessions Conference in November 2010, and announced as a winner in Circulation, the scientific journal of the American Heart Association. |
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13 MDs at Stony Brook Medicine Featured in New York Magazine's Best Doctors Issue, 2010 New York Magazine's 13th annual "Best Doctors in New York" issue features 13 physicians at Stony Brook Medicine, including four physicians on our team at the Heart Institute. All were selected from more than 50,000 physicians in the Greater New York Metropolitan Area. The "Best Doctors" list represents the top 3% of New York-area physicians. More |
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Our Physicians Continue to Earn Special Recognition Physicians at the Stony Brook Heart Institute continue to earn special recognition as "Top Doctors" selected for the highly regarded Castle Connolly guide books, Top Doctors: New York Metro Area, which represents the top 10% of physicians in the New York Metropolitan area, and America's Top Doctors, which represents the top 1% of physicians in the nation. |
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14 MDs at Stony Brook Medicine Featured in New York Magazine's Best Doctors Issue, 2009 New York Magazine's 12th annual "Best Doctors in New York" issue features 14 physicians at Stony Brook Medicine, including four physicians on our team at the Heart Institute. All were selected from more than 50,000 physicians in the Greater New York Metropolitan Area. The "Best Doctors" list represents the top 3% of New York-area physicians. More |
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University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) Ranks the Heart Institute Third out of 96 Academic Medical Centers Nationally for Lowest Overall Cardiac Mortality Cardiac services provided by Stony Brook Heart Institute are found to be in the top tier with those of the nation's top academic medical centers, according to recent data from the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), an alliance of about 90% of the nation's non-profit academic medical centers. For the 12-month period ending in March 2008, the Heart Institute was ranked third out of 96 academic medical centers for the lowest overall cardiac mortality. More |
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Accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI (the only one on Long Island) Stony Brook Medicine has received full reaccreditation as a chest pain center by the Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC). Stony Brook was the first hospital on Long Island to receive national accreditation in 2005, and is one of six in New York State to be accredited as a chest pain center. More |
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Heart Institute Physicians Recognized in New York Magazine's Best Doctors Issue, 2008 Once again, the Heart Institute physicians were recognized in New York magazine's annual "Best Doctors in New York" issue. The physicians were selected from more than 50,000 physicians in the Greater New York Metropolitan Area. The "Best Doctors" list represents approximately the top 3% of New York-area physicians. More |
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Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echo Laboratories (ICAEL) 2007-2010 ICAEL accreditation is a means by which echocardiography laboratories can evaluate and demonstrate the level of quality patient care they provide. After a laboratory submits the application to the ICAEL, the application undergoes a confidential peer-review by the ICAEL's trained reviewers, including both physicians and sonographers. More |
| Designated a UnitedHealth Premium Cardiac Specialty Center for 2007-2009. The Heart Institute has been designated a UnitedHealth PremiumSM cardiac specialty center, reflecting national recognition of the cardiac care it provides. United created the UnitedHealth Premium Program in order to designate and recognize health care organizations that meet high standards for program volumes and clinical outcomes, provide patient and family-oriented services, and practice evidence-based medicine to allow their members to make more informed choices about where they receive their care. |
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| Stony Brook Heart Institute Recognized on Niagara Health Quality Coalition 2009 New York State Honor Roll The Honor Roll consists of hospitals whose risk-adjusted mortality rate is statistically significantly lower than the state average mortality rate. SBUMC was awarded three stars for: Acute Myocardial Infarction, Congestive Heart Failure, Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioloplasty, and Acute Myocardial Infarction w/transfers excluded. More |
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| SBUMC CODE H Team Selected by Long Island Business News as 2008 Healthcare Hero for "Achievements in Healthcare" Healthcare Heroes is an annual award program to recognize excellence, promote innovation, contribute to the enhancement of the value and quality of health care and, ultimately, recognize the men, women and organizations whose tireless work, contributions and dedication to healing and caring ensure the well-being of everyone on Long Island. The "Code H Lifesaving Initiative Team" was selected for its interdisciplinary and methodical initiative to reduce door-to-balloon catheterization time to well below the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association guidelines of 90-minutes. More |
