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The Mount Sinai Medical Center Recognized by U.S. News and World Report in Annual “Best Hospitals” Rankings

The Mount Sinai Medical Center is prominently featured in U.S. News & World Report’s clinical specialty ranking of the nation’s most outstanding hospitals.

  • New York, NY
  • (July 16, 2013)

The Mount Sinai Medical Center is prominently featured in U.S. News & World Report's clinical specialty ranking of the nation's most outstanding hospitals.

Mount Sinai is nationally ranked as one of the top 25 hospitals in 7 out of 16 specialties and in the top 10 in three of those: Geriatrics (#4), Gastroenterology (GI) and GI Surgery (#9) and Ear, Nose & Throat (#10). Mount Sinai was high-performing in Gynecology, Cancer, Urology, Psychiatry, Orthopaedics, and Pulmonology.

Mount Sinai also ranked among the best hospitals in the New York region. Covering 94 metro areas in the United States, the regional hospital rankings complement the national rankings by including hospitals with solid performance in one or more of the 16 specialties in the Best Hospitals list.

The 2013-2014 edition of “Best Hospitals” can be found online at www.usnews.com/besthospitals and will be on newsstands Monday, August 26.

This year's Best Hospitals showcases more than 720 of the nation's roughly 5,000 hospitals. In arriving at its rankings for 12 specialties, U.S. News & World Report evaluated each institution's reputation, mortality index, patient safety record, discharges, and other care-related factors, including nursing and technology. The rankings for four specialties, Ophthalmology, Psychiatry, Rehabilitation, and Rheumatology were based on reputation alone, and reflect a three-year running average.

Mount Sinai's 2013-2014 U.S. News & World Report rankings:

Specialty National Ranking
Geriatrics 4
Gastroenterology 9
Heart & Heart Surgery 13
Ear, Nose & Throat 10
Rehabilitation* 14
Diabetes/Endocrinology 15
Neurology & Neurosurgery 22
Kidney Disorders 44
Gynecology High-performing
Urology High-performing
Cancer High-performing
Psychiatry* High-performing
Orthopaedics High-performing
Pulmonology High-performing

* Based on reputation only

About The Mount Sinai Medical Center
The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses both The Mount Sinai Hospital and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Established in 1968, the Icahn School of Medicine is one of the leading medical schools in the United States, with more than 3,400 faculty in 32 departments and 14 research institutes. It ranks among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and by U.S. News & World Report. The Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is a 1,171-bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility and one of the nation's oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals.

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About the Mount Sinai Health System

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, over 400 outpatient practices, nearly 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.

Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,300 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties.

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