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These 34 hospitals are the best in New York State, according to U.S. News & World Report's new 2019-2020 ranking of the top hospitals in the country. There were 14 hospitals in Upstate NY that made the ranking this year.
U.S. News ranks hospitals nationally for their expertise in treating the most challenging patients across 16 specialties, including cancers and complex surgeries, as well as 9 common procedures and conditions, such as heart disease.
Survival rates, patient safety, specialized staff and hospital reputation are key factors in creating the ranking. Full methodology >>
As U.S. News notes, the ranking is not the final step in choosing a hospital. For specific procedures and conditions, additional research should always be conducted. For more about each hospital below, click the "More info" link at the end of its listing.
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#32 (tie) Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center
West Islip, Suffolk County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
Previous year's rank:Unranked
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#32 (tie) New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital
Flushing, Queens
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#32
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#32 (tie) NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
Brooklyn
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#26
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#25 (tie) St. Elizabeth Medical Center
Utica, Oneida County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
- Hip Replacement Surgery: High Performing
- Knee Replacement Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank:Unranked
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#25 (tie) Crouse Hospital
Syracuse, Onondaga County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- Hip Replacement Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank: Unranked
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#25 (tie) Highland Hospital
Rochester, Monroe County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Hip Replacement Surgery: High Performing
- Knee Replacement Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#16
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#25 (tie) Vassar Brothers Medical Center
Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#20
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#25 (tie) Kenmore Mercy Hospital
Kenmore, Erie County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- Hip Replacement Surgery: High Performing
- Lung Cancer Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#16
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#25 (tie) Arnot Ogden Medical Center
Elmira, Chemung County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
- Knee Replacement Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank:Unranked
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#25 (tie) Sisters of Charity Hospital of Buffalo
Buffalo, Erie County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurism Repair: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank:Unranked
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#22 (tie) Staten Island University Hospital
Staten Island
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Nephrology #44
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#26
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#22 (tie) Mercy Hospital
Buffalo, Erie County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Aortic Valve Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Bypass Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#26
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#22 (tie) Maimonides Medical Center
Brooklyn
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Diabetes & Endocrinology: High Performing
- Neurology & Neurosurgery: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#30
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#20 (tie) Rochester General Hospital
Rochester, Monroe County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Geriatrics: High Performing
- Pulmonology & Lung Surgery: High Performing
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurism Repair: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#10
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#20 (tie) South Nassau Communities Hospital
Oceanside, Nassau County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Diabetes & Endocrinology: High Performing
- Gastroenterology & GI Surgery: High Performing
- Orthopedics: High Performing
- Urology #35
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#26
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#19 St. Joseph's Health Hospital
Syracuse, Onondaga County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurism Repair: High Performing
- Aortic Valve Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Bypass Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
- Hip Replacement Surgery: High Performing
- Knee Replacement Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#10
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#16 (tie) White Plains Hospital
White Plains, Westchester County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Gastroenterology & GI Surgery: High Performing
- Gynecology: #22
- Neurology & Neurosurgery: High Performing
- Orthopedics: High Performing
- Pulmonology & Lung Surgery: High Performing
- Urology: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
Previous year's rank:Unranked
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#16 (tie) Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital
New York City
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Cancer: High Performing
- Diabetes & Endocrinology #29
- Gastroenterology & GI Surgery: High Performing
- Geriatrics: High Performing
- Nephrology: High Performing
- Neurology & Neurosurgery: High Performing
- Orthopedics: High Performing
- Urology: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#30
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#16 (tie) Buffalo General Medical Center
Buffalo, Erie County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Neurology & Neurosurgery: High Performing
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurism Repair: High Performing
- Aortic Valve Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Bypass Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
- Hip Replacement Surgery: High Performing
- Knee Replacement Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#10
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#12 (tie) Strong Memorial Hospital of the University of Rochester
Rochester, Monroe County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Gastroenterology & GI Surgery: High Performing
- Orthopedics: High Performing
- Pulmonology & Lung Surgery: High Performing
- Urology: High Performing
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurism Repair: High Performing
- Heart Bypass Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
- Lung Cancer Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#4
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#12 (tie) Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospitals
New York City
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Diabetes & Endocrinology #25
- Gastroenterology & GI Surgery: High Performing
- Nephrology #23
- Neurology & Neurosurgery: High Performing
- Orthopedics: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#20
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#12 (tie) Huntington Hospital
Huntington, Suffolk County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Gastroenterology & GI Surgery: High Performing
- Geriatrics: High Performing
- Nephrology: High Performing
- Orthopedics #48
- Pulmonology & Lung Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
- Hip Replacement Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#20
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#12 (tie) St. Peter's Hospital
Albany, Albany County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Gynecology #29
- Aortic Valve Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Bypass Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
- Hip Replacement Surgery: High Performing
- Knee Replacement Surgery: High Performing
- Lung Cancer Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#10
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#11 Stony Brook University Hospital
Stony Brook, Suffolk County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Gastroenterology & GI Surgery: High Performing
- Geriatrics: High Performing
- Nephrology: High Performing
- Neurology & Neurosurgery: High Performing
- Pulmonology & Lung Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Bypass Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#16
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#10 Albany Medical Center
Albany, Albany County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Ear, Nose & Throat
- Nephrology: High Performing
- Urology: High Performing
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurism Repair: High Performing
- Heart Bypass Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
- Hip Replacement Surgery: High Performing
- Knee Replacement Surgery: High Performing
- Lung Cancer Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#14
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#9 St. Francis Hospital
Roslyn, Nassau County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Cardiology & Heart Surgery #34
- Gastroenterology & GI Surgery #36
- Geriatrics #44
- Neurology & Neurosurgery: High Performing
- Orthopedics: High Performing
- Pulmonology & Lung Surgery: High Performing
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurism Repair: High Performing
- Aortic Valve Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Bypass Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
- Hip Replacement Surgery: High Performing
- Knee Replacement Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#5
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#8 Long Island Jewish Medical Center
New Hyde Park, Nassau County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Cancer: High Performing
- Diabetes & Endocrinology #33
- Ear, Nose & Throat #18
- Gastroenterology & GI Surgery: High Performing
- Geriatrics: High Performing
- Gynecology #21
- Nephrology #35
- Orthopedics #24
- Pulmonology & Lung Surgery: High Performing
- Urology #31
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
- Lung Cancer Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#15
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#7 NYU Winthrop Hospital
Mineola, Nassau County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Cardiology & Heart Surgery #42
- Diabetes & Endocrinology #27
- Gastroenterology & GI Surgery #40
- Geriatrics: High Performing
- Nephrology #47
- Neurology & Neurosurgery: High Performing
- Orthopedics #32
- Pulmonology & Lung Surgery: High Performing
- Urology #22
- Aortic Valve Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Bypass Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
- Lung Cancer Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#6
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#6 Montefiore Medical Center
Bronx
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Cancer #37
- Cardiology & Heart Surgery #31
- Diabetes & Endocrinology #14
- Gastroenterology & GI Surgery #50
- Geriatrics #48
- Gynecology #50
- Nephrology #27
- Neurology & Neurosurgery #29
- Orthopedics: High Performing
- Urology #15
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
- Knee Replacement Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#6
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#5 Lenox Hill Hospital
New York City
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Cancer: High Performing
- Cardiology & Heart Surgery #44
- Diabetes & Endocrinology #9
- Ear, Nose & Throat #24
- Gastroenterology & GI Surgery: High Performing
- Geriatrics #49
- Nephrology #38
- Neurology & Neurosurgery: High Performing
- Orthopedics: High Performing
- Pulmonology & Lung Surgery: High Performing
- Urology #32
- Heart Bypass Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
- Hip Replacement Surgery: High Performing
- Knee Replacement Surgery: High Performing
- Lung Cancer Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#6
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#4 North Shore University Hospital
Manhasset, Nassau County
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Cardiology & Heart Surgery #20
- Diabetes & Endocrinology #15
- Gastroenterology & GI Surgery #33
- Geriatrics #35
- Nephrology #46
- Neurology & Neurosurgery #31
- Orthopedics #11
- Pulmonology & Lung Surgery #21
- Urology #38
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurism Repair: High Performing
- Aortic Valve Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Bypass Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
- Hip Replacement Surgery: High Performing
- Knee Replacement Surgery: High Performing
- Lung Cancer Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#9
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#3 Mount Sinai Hospital
New York City
National rank:#14
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Cancer: High Performing
- Cardiology & Heart Surgery #6
- Diabetes & Endocrinology #7
- Ear, Nose & Throat #28
- Gastroenterology & GI Surgery #9
- Geriatrics #3
- Gynecology #18
- Nephrology #11
- Neurology & Neurosurgery #14
- Orthopedics #18
- Pulmonology & Lung Surgery: High Performing
- Rehabilitation: High Performing
- Urology: High Performing
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurism Repair: High Performing
- Aortic Valve Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Bypass Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
- Lung Cancer Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#3
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#2 NYU Langone Hospitals
New York City
National rank:#9
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Cancer #19
- Cardiology & Heart Surgery #15
- Diabetes & Endocrinology #17
- Ear, Nose & Throat #35
- Gastroenterology & GI Surgery #11
- Geriatrics #9
- Gynecology #34
- Nephrology #12
- Neurology & Neurosurgery #7
- Orthopedics #5
- Psychiatry: High Performing
- Pulmonology & Lung Surgery #26
- Rehabilitation #7
- Rheumatology #8
- Urology #17
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurism Repair: High Performing
- Aortic Valve Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Bypass Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
- Hip Replacement Surgery: High Performing
- Knee Replacement Surgery: High Performing
- Lung Cancer Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank:#2
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#1 New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell
New York City
National rank: #5
Nationally ranked procedures/conditions:
- Cancer #29
- Cardiology & Heart Surgery #4
- Diabetes & Endocrinology #6
- Ear, Nose & Throat #17
- Gastroenterology & GI Surgery #10
- Geriatrics #9
- Gynecology #4
- Nephrology #5
- Neurology & Neurosurgery #4
- Ophthalmology: High Performing
- Orthopedics #13
- Psychiatry #4
- Pulmonology & Lung Surgery #30
- Rehabilitation #11
- Rheumatology #3
- Urology #9
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurism Repair: High Performing
- Aortic Valve Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Bypass Surgery: High Performing
- Heart Failure: High Performing
- Colon Cancer Surgery: High Performing
- COPD: High Performing
- Hip Replacement Surgery: High Performing
- Knee Replacement Surgery: High Performing
- Lung Cancer Surgery: High Performing
Previous year's rank: #1
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In the provided article, the focus is on the top hospitals in New York State according to the U.S. News & World Report's 2019-2020 ranking. The ranking considers 16 specialties, including cancers and complex surgeries, as well as 9 common procedures and conditions like heart disease. Factors such as survival rates, patient safety, specialized staff, and hospital reputation play pivotal roles in determining the rankings.
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U.S. News & World Report's Hospital Ranking Methodology:
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Hospital Rankings in New York State:
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Ranked Procedures and Conditions:
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Geographical Representation:
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