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NEW HYDE PARK -- For the fifth consecutive year, the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York (CCMC) has been ranked among the best children’s hospitals in the nation in U.S. News & World Report's 2011-12 “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” survey.

CCMC placed among the top 50 hospitals in all of the 10 different pediatric specialty areas surveyed in the magazine’s annual rankings, specifically: cancer care , heart care, neonatology, neurology/neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology, urology, diabetes/endocrinology , gastroenterology, and nephrology. The hospital was ranked 12th in the nation for pediatric urology, its highest placement in the survey.

The U.S. News Rankings are based on a hospital’s reputation, medical outcomes such as death and infection rates, and care-related indicators such as patient volume, nurse staffing and availability of specialized programs. The magazine’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” edition is accessible online at www.usnews.com/childrenshospitals.

“The US News & World Report rankings are significant and provide a valuable guide for parents looking to make decisions regarding high quality healthcare for their children,” 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. “Being ranked for five straight years as one of the nation’s best pediatric hospitals is testament to the excellent and compassionate care provided by our physicians and nurses. It is one of the reasons the Cohen Children’s Medical Center is a destination hospital for children from around the world.”

To meet the growing need for specialized pediatric services, a $120 million, 100,000-square-foot pavilion is being built at CCMC. The six-story structure, due to be completed in 2012, will include a pediatric emergency center, a 25-bed medical-surgical unit and a 25-bed pediatric intensive care unit.

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. To learn more, go to: www.northshorelij.com/ccmcny or call (718) 470-3000.