Despite the opinions expressed in column, “Here’s why you can’t believe ‘top hospitals’ lists,” Harlem Hospital richly deserved the 2015 Top Hospital distinction it earned from our nonprofit, The Leapfrog Group.
Our Top Hospitals committee sets the bar high, selecting only hospitals that perform at or above the level we would want for ourselves and our families. We used data from the annual Leapfrog Hospital Survey, calculating which hospitals across the country performed best on our rigorous standards for quality, including mortality rates, infections, outcomes and management practices that put patients first. Harlem Hospital excelled among its peers, even among hospitals with far more resources and bigger brand names.
Harlem Hospital is a public hospital; certainly not one of the elite academic medical centers New York City is known for worldwide. Given this, the column writer speculated that there must be something wrong with Leapfrog’s data and offered several theories.
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