South Nassau Receives Numerous Awards For Women's Health

South Nassau Communities Hospital announced on Tuesday that is has been named a 2018 5-Star Recipient for all four Women’s Care cohorts as well as the Gynecologic Surgery Excellence Award by Healthgrades, the leading online resource for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.

In addition, South Nassau is the only hospital in New York to achieve all five of the following awards in 2018 from Healthgrades in women’s health services lines:

• Gynecologic Surgery Excellence Award (6 years in a row)
• Five Star for Gynecologic Procedures (6 years in a row)
• Five-Star for Hysterectomy (4 years in a row)
• Five Star for C-Section Delivery
• Five Star for Vaginal Delivery

These awards place South Nassau among a select group of hospitals in the US — the top 5 percent of all hospitals evaluated for gynecologic procedures and the top 10 percent of hospitals evaluated for providing outstanding quality outcomes in gynecologic surgery. Patients have a lower chance of experiencing a complication when treated at hospitals receiving one or more of Healthgrades’ Women’s Care Specialty Excellence Awards than if they were treated in hospitals that were not recipients, according to Healthgrades.

“From high-risk pregnancies and infertility to breast cancer and reproductive malignancies, the Healthgrades awards testify to our long-standing commitment to ensure that women have convenient access to the very best care, right here on the South Shore,” said Richard J. Murphy, South Nassau's president and CEO.

Healthgrades analyzed patient outcome data for all patients made available by 15 individual states and the District of Columbia for 2014 through 2016. The analysis found that patients treated in hospitals receiving the Healthgrades awards had, on average, a 46.3 percent lower risk of experiencing a complication while in the hospital than if they were treated in hospitals that did not receive the award. It also revealed that if all hospitals in the analysis performed similarly to those receiving the award, complications could have potentially been avoided for 12,637 patients.

“The awards are a direct result of our multi-disciplinary healthcare team of top-notch physicians and nurses that utilize the latest medical technologies and treatments to deliver high-quality healthcare tailored to the specific needs of women,” said Dr. Alan Garely, chair of obstetrics and gynecology at South Nassau and clinical professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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