Winthrop Children’s Medical Center Ranked Among Nation’s Best

U.S. News & World Report released a list of the best children's hospitals in the country Tuesday and two Long Island hospitals were on the list.

Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park was named one of the nation's top 50 hospitals that offer exceptional pediatric care for the tenth year in a row, while Winthrop University Hospital Children’s Medical Center in Mineola was ranked in the top 50 nationwide in three of 10 pediatric specialties.

Cohen was nationally ranked in seven pediatric specialties.

Winthrop rankings:

• Diabetes and Endocrinology— No. 29
• Pulmonology — No. 50
• Urology— No. 48

Cohen rankings:

• Pediatric Urology— No. 4
• Neonatology— No. 29
• Gastroenterology and GI surgery— No. 37
• Neurology and Neurosurgery— No. 39
• Orthopedics— No. 40
• Pulmonology— No. 40
• Cancer— No. 42

Neither hospital was ranked in the nephrology and cardiology/ heart surgery pediatric specialties.

“Our clinical outcomes are among the best in the country,” Charles Schleien, MD, executive director of Cohen Children’s, and senior vice president and chair of pediatrics at Northwell Health, said in a press release. “Knowing that their child is going to get great care should give families great comfort that they’ve come to the right place. We have the best of all pediatric services under one roof, as demonstrated by the latest US News’ survey.”

U.S. News & World Report — which publishes some of the most respected rankings on schools, hospitals, jobs and more — used data from a clinical survey of 183 hospitals along with a survey of pediatric specialists and sub-specialists. It then ranked the hospitals across 10 specialties — such as cancer and orthopedics — based on these three factors, weighted equally:

• "Clinical outcomes," such as cancer survival and infection rates
• "Efficient coordination of care," or how well the hospital complies with industry best practices
• "Sufficient care-related resources," such as having adequate staff and programs for certain conditions

To make the magazine's "honor roll," a hospital had to rank in the top 10 percent in at least three specialties. Then, hospitals were assigned a points score — two points for ranking in the top 5 percentile of a specialty and one point for ranking in the next 5 percentile — to come up with the overall ranking.

Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, the only children's hospital in Suffolk County, was not ranked nationally in any speciality. The hospital, however, did make the top 50 list in the specialty area of nephrology in the 2014-15 rankings.

Explore the full children's hospital rankings, including by specialty, here.

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