Brookdale has been ranked 33 out of 184 hospitals in the New York-Metro area by U.S. News Media & World Report’s 2011-12 Best Hospitals rankings, available online at www.usnews.com/besthospitals. The rankings, annually published for the past 22 years, are currently featured in the U.S. News "Best Hospitals" guidebook.
The process began by ranking the performance of all the hospitals in the United States in 16 specialties. From there the top 25 percent were identified and that 25 percent was then broken down into 94 metropolitan areas with at least 500,000 residents. Hospitals were then ranked in accordance to the number of specialties in which they ranked as “high performers.” Brookdale received top rankings in three specialties: Nephrology, Neurology & Neurosurgery and Urology.
As part of the same report, US News collaborated with Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. in developing their US News Top Doctors. The Top doctors list for the New York -Metro area included 25 doctors affiliated with Brookdale Hospital across 24 specialties. Selections for this prestigious list were made through a peer nominating process and every nomination was extensively reviewed by the Castle Connolly physician-led research team and presented to the editors, Chief Medical and Research Officer and other key members of the team for their determination.
The physicians honored and their specialties are:
Theodore W. AvRuskin, MD - Pediatric Endocrinology
Hooshang Barzegar, MD - Gynecology
Lawrence J. Bernstein, MD - Rheumatology
Elliott Bondi, MD - Pulmonology
Rashid M. Chaudhry, MD NT - Otolaryngology Surgery
Shyan-Yih Chou, MD - Nephrology
Richard Cofsky, MD - Infectious Diseases
Lucio Flores, MD - Vascular Surgery
Richard J. Fogler, MD - Surgery
Joel M. Goldman, MD - Endocrinology
Milton J. Grunzweig, MD - Internal Medicine
George F. Hyman, MD - Ophthalmology
Arthur D. Kay, MD - Neurology
Hong Kim, MD - Urology
Norman Klein, MD - Allergy-Immunology
Mark Krotowski, MD - Family Medicine
Stephen M. Lichter, MD - Medical Oncology
Sanjeev Rajpal, MD - Surgery
Warren B. Shapiro, MD - Nephrology
Bernadette L. Sheridan, MD - Family Medicine
Deborah Silberman, MD - Ophthalmology
Myron Sokal, MD - Neonatalogy
Samuel Spitalewitz, MD - Nephrology
Shepard H. Splain, DO Orthopedic - Surgery
Kusum Viswanathan, MD - Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
“We are all extremely proud of Brookdale’s performance and the fact that 25 of our physicians were ranked as Best Doctors by such a prestigious publication as US News and World Report”, stated President and CEO, Bruce J. Flanz. “We strive for the best and this ranking demonstrates that we are on target,” he added.
Keep up the good work!
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