• Beth Israel Medical Center and The New York Eye & Ear Infirmary are among those hospitals listed in the 2010 U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals” annual survey. Under the specialty of “Ear, Nose and Throat,” NYEE ranks 41st and Beth Israel ranks 45th, and under the specialty of Ophthalmology, NYEE ranks 13th.
• Continuum Health Partners was named one of the nation's "Top 100 Most Wired Hospitals" by "Hospitals and Health Networks" for the third year in a row.
• Beth Israel received a 2010 HANYS Pinnacle Award for Quality and Patient Safety for its program to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections. Visit the HANYS Website to see photos of the award winners. Beth Israel received a 2009 HANYS Pinnacle Award for Quality and Patient Safety for successfully reducing hospital-acquired infections, specifically methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureaus (MRSA) infections.
• Beth Israel was chosen as one of seven nonprofit health organizations to share in more than $1.2 million in funding from the New York State Department of Health for demonstration projects focusing on the prevention of infections acquired in hospitals.
• Beth Israel was declared a premium specialty center and awarded three stars by United HealthCare for its spine surgery and total joint replacement programs. The designation means that BI meets or exceeds nationally recognized standards of care for these two specialties.
• Beth Israel was recognized by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association for its treatment of cardiac and stroke patients by using the “Get with the Guidelines” Program, a hospital-based quality improvement program designed to ensure that hospitals consistently care for cardiac and stroke patients following the most up-to-date guidelines and recommendations.
• The Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care at Beth Israel Medical Center was named 2009 Center of Excellence Award Winner by the American Pain Society.
• Beth Israel has been selected by the Institute of Healthcare Improvement as one of the first “mentor hospitals” for a new infection prevention initiative, which will focus on reducing Foley catheter-associated urinary tract infections.
• Beth Israel, for the second year in a row, has earned “Quality Respiratory Recognition” under a national American Association for Respiratory Care program that helps patients and families make informed decisions about the quality of respiratory care services available in hospitals.
• Beth Israel’s 1199 infection prevention coaches received an award for their efforts to improve hand hygiene and the environment of care, and reduce infections at the Petrie and Kings Highway Division at the recent 1199 Quality and Service Conference in Manhattan.
• Beth Israel was awarded 2008 Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program grants from the New York State Department of Health. The two-year grants total $150,000. The funds are being used for studies on diabetes, bone metabolism and magnetic resonance imaging.
• St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals were awarded 2008 Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program grants from the New York State Department of Health. The two-year grants total $150,000. The monies are being used to improve patient safety and do research into coronary disease.
• St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals’ HIV Center for Comprehensive Care has received the American Psychiatric Association’s 2009 award for advancing minority mental health care.
• St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals were designated as New York City Hospitals for Bariatric Surgery for obesity by the New York State Department of Health. In addition, SLR is an American College of Surgeons Center of Excellence for obesity surgery.
• The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals was recognized by New York State’s Hospital-Acquired Infection Reporting Program as having the lowest rate of neonatal infections in New York State.
• St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals were among seven nonprofit health organizations chosen to share in more than $1.2 million in funding from the New York State Department of Health for demonstration projects that will focus on the prevention of infections acquired in hospitals.
• St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals were recognized by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association for its treatment of cardiac and stroke patients by using the "Get with the Guidelines" Program, a hospital-based quality improvement program designed to ensure that hospitals consistently care for cardiac and stroke patients following the most up-to-date guidelines and recommendations.
• "ADVANCE for Nurses," a national biweekly newsmagazine published by Merion Publications, Inc., announced that Beth Israel has been selected by registered nurses as one of the "top hospitals" in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area in the magazine’s second annual “Readers’ Choice” survey.

Annual Board of Trustees Quality and Patient Safety Award
2011 Award Winners
Representative Organization: Beth Israel Medical Center
Fall Reduction in Beth Israel Rehabilitation Nursing

The team successfully reduced fall rates by collecting information from patients prior to admission to identify individuals patient needs. They subsequently developed individual plans for patients including room placement and periodically re-evaluation. In addition, they educated staff members, patients and family members about safety precautions.

Team Leaders: Wayde Binder, RN; Ellen Dean Ferguson, RN; Joaquin Valdez, RN; Norma Chong, RN; Larry Brown, RN; Susan Thomas, RN; Marie Garland Matais, RN, with participation of staff from the departments of Rehabilitation Medicine, Patient Care Services, Quality Standards and Practices and Nursing Systems.

Honorable Mentions

• Representative Organization: St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals
  Neonatal Order Set Implementation
  
  The team successfully reduced neonatal-related prescribing medication errors by creating a standard ordering format for neonatal orders, separate from adult order sets.
  
  Team Leaders: Janice Klein, MD; Janna Roitman, PharmD; Nori Yuan, RN; Yvonne Sorensson, RN, MA, and a team of neonatologists, nurses, pharmacists and information technology staff.
  
  
• Representative Organization: Beth Israel Medical Center and St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals
  Prevention of C. difficile Infections Across Continuum Health Partners
  
  The team successfully developed a strategy to interrupt the transmission and prevent the occurrence of hospital-acquired Clostidium difficile infections (CDI).
  
  Team Leaders: Brian Koll, MD and Barbara Smith, RN, with active participation from staff from the departments of Patient Care Services, Infection Control and Environmental Services and senior leadership