Quality and Public Reporting
North Shore-LIJ is the 2010 recipient of the National Quality Forum's National Quality Healthcare Award.
The health system discloses its hospitals’ quality performance data to the public on its web site which includes information on hospital-acquired infection rates; performance in treating patients for heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia; and success rates in performing cardiac bypass and joint replacement surgeries. Patient satisfaction scores are also posted.
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