NEW HYDE PARK – For the fourth consecutive year, US News & World Report magazine has ranked the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York as being among the nation’s best.

The US News & World Report’s “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” edition, available on news stands on July 27 and accessible online now at www.usnews.com/childrenshospitals, ranks the Cohen Children’s Medical Center (CCMC) among the nation’s top 30 children’s hospitals in the pediatric specialties of: urology and diabetes/endocrinology . CCMC was one of only two hospitals in New York State recognized for its expertise in those specialties.

The rankings are based on hospitals’ reputation, medical outcomes such as death and infection rates, and care-related indicators such as patient volume, nurse staffing and availability of specialized programs.

“For patients and their families, the US News & World Report rankings reaffirm the Cohen Children’s Medical Center’s growing reputation as a destination hospital for children from throughout the New York metropolitan area, the nation and the world,” said Arthur Klein MD, the hospital’s executive director and chief of staff, and the North Shore-LIJ Health System’s senior vice president of children’s services. “We are proud of this national distinction, and feel confident that the generosity entrusted to us by Steven and Alexandra Cohen will enable us to build on the hospital’s legacy of extraordinary pediatric care.”

To meet the growing demand for pediatric services, CCMC is in the midst of a $120 million expansion project, made possible by the Cohen Foundation’s $50 million gift earlier this year. This spring, construction began on a four-story, 100,000-square-foot pavilion in front of the existing children’s hospital in New Hyde Park. The new building, expected to be completed in 2013, will feature a:

Pediatric Emergency Center – the region’s first dedicated, stand-alone pediatric emergency department;

• 24-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit;
• 25-bed Medical-Surgical Unit; and
• State-of-the-art surgery center that will include six operating rooms solely dedicated to children.

About the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York
Opened in 1983 and known as Schneider Children’s Hospital until March 2010, the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York has nearly 600 pediatricians, including 120-full-time physicians, and a total workforce of 1,330, including about 400 nurses.

Annually, the children’s hospitals on the New Hyde Park and Manhasset campuses treat nearly 12,000 inpatients, about 170,000 outpatients, nearly 70,000 emergency patients and about 2,500 neonates, and perform about 6,500 surgeries. The New Hyde Park facility is one of only two pediatric trauma centers in the New York area. In addition to its main facilities in New Hyde Park and Manhasset, the children’s hospital has satellite centers in Bensonhurst and Williamsburg, Brooklyn; Flushing, Queens; and Commack and Hewlett, Long Island.

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