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Hospital receives outstanding achievement award One of only six hospitals in NYS cited by the Commission on Cancer Mercy Medical Center’s cancer program has received a coveted Outstanding Achievement Award from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons – one of only six hospitals in New York State, and just two on Long Island, to be so honored. The award was based on an on-site survey last October that resulted in Mercy’s Community Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Program receiving Accreditation with Commendation from the Commission. The Outstanding Achievement Award further recognizes Mercy for compliance with seven standards of cancer program activity: cancer committee leadership, data management, clinical management, research, and community outreach and quality improvement. Hospital received 2011 Bariatric Surgery Excellence Award Mercy Medical Center has received the 2011 Bariatric Surgery Excellence Award from HealthGrades, the nation’s leading independent healthcare ratings organization, for the sixth consecutive year, with the highest ranking of any hospital in Nassau County and the Five Boroughs of New York City. Mercy is the only hospital on Long Island or in New York City to receive both the Excellence Award and the organization’s highest Five Star rating every year since HealthGrades began its ratings for bariatric surgery six years ago.
Mercy was ranked in the top 10 percent of all of the hospitals studied nationwide and fifth in all of New York State, the sixth year in a row that it has been in the top five statewide as well as in the top 10 percent nationally. No other hospital on Long Island or in New York City has ranked in the top ten percent nationally in every year of the study. The study found that patients at hospitals like Mercy that achieve the highest Five Star level of quality care, are nearly 70 percent less likely to experience in-hospital complications, and spend, on average, a half-day less in the hospital than patients treated at average (1-Star) hospitals. Mercy is a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence designated by the American Society For Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, and the hospital’s weight-loss surgery program is headed by Dr. Shawn Garber, the only bariatric surgeon included in Newsday’s listing of Top Doctors on Long Island. Hospital receives award from American Stroke Association In recognition of its excellent care for stroke patients, Mercy Medical Center has received a Get With The Guidelines® Stroke Silver Plus Achievement Award from the American Heart Association / American Stroke Association. Get With The Guidelines is the American Heart Association/American Stroke
Association’s hospital-based quality improvement program that empowers healthcare teams to save lives and reduce costs by helping hospitals to follow guidelines and recommendations. To receive the Silver Plus Achievement Award, Mercy achieved 85 percent or higher adherence to all Get With The Guidelines Stroke Performance Achievement indicators for 12 consecutive months, along with 75 percent or higher compliance with six of ten Get With The Guidelines Stroke Quality Measures. Mercy also is a New York State-Designated Stroke Center with a dedicated multidisciplinary Stroke Team that includes emergency physicians, neurologists, neurosurgeons, radiologists, nurse practitioners, nurses, vascular surgeons, and rehabilitation specialists. Stroke-Center designation indicates that Mercy’s team meets nationally-recognized criteria for a strict protocol or program of care for patients who have symptoms of stroke with rapid, definitive treatment. Hospital receives award from American College of Radiology. Mercy Medical Center has also been designated a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology. The Center of Excellence designation affirms that Mercy has earned ACR accreditation in mammography, stereotactic breast biopsy, and breast ultrasound, including
ultrasound-guided breast biopsy. At Mercy Medical Center, it’s easy to arrange state-of-the-art screening and diagnostic mammograms as part of convenient, comprehensive breast health services. Mercy’s Bishop McGann Center for Oncology and Imaging provides coordinated multidisciplinary screening, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up care at a single location, utilizing the most advanced imaging and minimally-invasive techniques for the diagnosis of benign and malignant breast disease. Mercy offers next-day screening appointments, and same-day results, with radiologists available to read images in real time.
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Orthopedics program cited for Total Joint Replacement and Spine surgery. Mercy Medical Center has been designated by Aetna Institute of Quality Orthopedic Care Facility for total joint replacement and spine surgery. Aetna Institutes facilities are selected for providing safe, evidence-based, high quality, high-value care. Mercy Medical Center is widely recognized for its innovative orthopedic services that include a unique Joint Endeavor Program For Rapid Recovery and innovative Spine Endeavor Program, which uses the latest minimally-invasive techniques for the treatment of chronic back, neck and leg pain, herniated discs and other intractable Q spinal problems.
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