Distinctions and Awards


A Holly Paterson Extended Care Facility awarded a Five Stars Overall Quality rating from US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Nursing Home Compare listing.

NuHealth press release link: http://www.numc.edu/pressreleasedetail.asp?ID=709

Learn how the ratings are determined by the US Department of Health and Human Services: www.medicare.gov/NHcompare

Nassau University Medical Center receives a Five Star Healthgrades 2009/2010 Bariatric Surgery Excellence Award

NuHealth press release link: http://www.numc.edu/pressreleasedetail.asp?ID=631

For more information on Healthgrades 2009/2010 Bariatric Surgery Excellence Award: http://www.healthgrades.com/cms/ratings-and-awards/2009-10-Bariatric-Surgery-Excellence-Announcement.aspx

Nassau University Medical Center approved as a NYS Department of Health Designated Stroke Center

For more information click on link: http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/ems/stroke/stroke.htm

Nassau Health Care Corporation is granted full accreditation status by the Joint Commission.
The accreditation process is designed to help organizations continuously provide safe, high-quality care, treatment, and services.

For more information on the Joint Commission accreditation: http://www.jointcommission.org/
NuHealth press release link: http://www.nuhealth.net/pressreleasedetail.asp?ID=771

Nassau University Medical Center’s Inpatient Rehabilitation unit, only one of two Long Island Inpatient units included in prestigious top 133 listing of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in US News and World Report, Hospitals 2010 Web Edition

For full list of top ranking Rehabilitation Hospitals: http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/rankings/rehabilitation
NuHealth press release link: http://www.nuhealth.net/pressreleasedetail.asp?ID=760

Two NUMC submissions accepted in the HANYS Quality Initiative 2010 Profiles in Quality and Patient Safety

·  Information Technology and the Stroke Force Collaborate to Improve Quality
·  Improved Efficiency of Platelet Utilization Through Leadership and Cultural Transformation

NuHealth press release link: http://www.nuhealth.net/pressreleasedetail.asp?ID=909

NUMC joins 11 New-York State hospitals in pledging to implement evidence based medicine to enhance patient outcomes and lower costs.

NuHealth press release link: http://www.nuhealth.net/pressreleasedetail.asp?ID=951

NUMC Receives American Stroke Association’s GWTG-- Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award

NuHealth press release link: http://www.nuhealth.net/pressreleasedetail.asp?ID=1003

NUMC Selcted as Winner of Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council's 2011 Excellence in Patient Safety Award.

NuHealth press release link: http://www.nuhealth.net/pressreleasedetail.asp?ID=1069

For third straight year, A. Holly Patterson Extended Care Facility, recognized in us news and world report CMS nursing home compare listing, receiving five stars overall quality

NuHealth press release link: http://www.nuhealth.net/pressreleasedetail.asp?ID=916

Nassau University Medical Center receives American Heart Association’s get with the guidelines bronze quality achievement award

NuHealth press release link: http://www.nuhealth.net/pressreleasedetail.asp?ID=1092

NUMC’s award-winning central line associated blood stream infections initiative recognized in Joint Commission briefings

NuHealth press release link: http://www.nuhealth.net/pressreleasedetail.asp?ID=1109

NuHealth’s A. Holly Patterson Extended Care Facility identified as top performing long term organization by the American College of Health Care Administrators, with facility leadership award to be presented to Larry Slatky and Anthony Restaino

NuHealth press release link: http://www.nuhealth.net/pressreleasedetail.asp?ID=1146