Quality and Safety

We strive to provide the best care possible at Stony Brook University Hospital.
We value your participation in the healthcare.  This website provides you with a better understanding of the quality of the care that is provided as well as areas we are targeting for improvement.

Stony Brook University Hospital’s organizational values are:  I CARE (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Excellence). As part of our desire for accountability and excellence we invite you to review our progress as we move toward becoming a High Reliability Organization, an error-free organization, over time.  As we continue our journey to become a world-class organization, we wish to promulgate an environment in which patients and families become the center of their care, a movement known as Patient- and Family-Centered Care.

If you have any suggestions on how we may become more reliable with a focus on Patient- and Family-Centered Care, please let us know by emailing us at sbuh_Quality@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.  This is our way to share with you the latest information and data available to support our efforts to improve quality and patient safety.

Recent efforts in the quality and patient safety arena earned us local and national recognition.  Here is a sample of a few of our accomplishments.  We hope you find this information helpful.

• Nassau Suffolk Hospital Council 1st Annual Excellence in Patient Safety Award
• Top 10th Percentile for HANYS Pinnacle Awards (Safety and Quality Awards) 
• Ellison Pierce (American Society of Anesthesiology) Patient Safety Award for Exhibit "Maternal Hemorrhage: A Proactive Multidisciplinary Approach to Reduce Mortality/Morbidity”
• Top 4% nationally in trauma survival for “victims of injury”- Survival Measurement and Reporting Trial for Trauma (SMARTT)
• University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) Recognition of Success in Reducing Mortality
• Recognition as a “Best Place to Work” in a UHC Nursing Collaborative  Knowledge Transfer Web Conference
• University HealthSystem Consortium, second lowest risk adjusted cardiac mortality nationally (4 qtrs ending 3/08)
• Health Care Heroes Awards,  LI Business News (3 finalists)
• UnitedHealth Designation: Stony Brook University Hospital as a Premium Cardiac Specialty Center
• Practice Greenhealth Environmental Achievement Award
• Innovator of the Year Award for Food Services (Healthcare Food Services Management Assn)
• Recognition for Blood Donations by the Red Cross
• Organ Donor Medal of Honor, Transplant Growth and Management Collaborative
• 2009 HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence (a group of the top 270 out of 4971 ranked)

We are interested in your feedback and questions. Please send email to: sbuh_Quality@notes.cc.sunysb.edu to let us know if this is helpful, or if you need something you can't find here.