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Friday, August 11, 2023
Vol. 72, No. 32
LIVING 50+
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North Shore, Langone ranked among the best
SUMMER SLIDE
U.S. News says hospitals in top 22 in nation, tops in N.Y. with 2 others BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y Two North Shore hospitals earned a place on U.S. News & World Report’s “Honor Roll” of the best 22 hospitals in the country, the publication announced Tuesday. Northwell Health’s North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset and NYU Langone Health’s hospitals, which has a Mineola facility, are in a four-way tie for the top spot in New York. The two hospitals are joined by Mount Sinai Hospital and New YorkPresbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell in New York City, which were also named to the honor roll. Northwell President and CEO Michael Dowling said the rankings are a testament to the network’s team. “We are proud to see Northwell recognized as New York State’s mostawarded health system,” Dowling said in a statement. “These last few years have been challenging, but we have never stopped working to raise the health of the patients and communities we serve.” “What remains clear is that NYU Langone Health continues to provide our patients with the best outcomes, as evidenced by the broad spectrum of independent arbiters that consistently
recognize our excellence,” said Langone CEO Robert Grossman. Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park and St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center in Roslyn were tied for sixth-best hospitals in New York, according to the publication. Huntington Hospital, Bay Shore’s South Shore University Hospital and Stony Brook University Hospital were ranked as the 11th, 12th and 13th best hospitals in the state, respectively. Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital in Oceanside and Plainview Hospital were tied for 29th best in New York. U.S. News this year did not give numbered rankings to the honor roll but did for specialties, which the Long Island facilities placed highly in. North Shore had a No. 10 ranking nationally for orthopedics, pulmonology and lung surgery. The Manhasset hospital had nine specialties in the top 50 rankings. Long Island Jewish also had nine specialties ranked, with its highest being a No. 11 ranking for obstetrics and gynecology. Langone’s neurology and neurosurgery specialty ranked first nationally for the second year in a row while nine others had top-10 national rankings. Continued on Page 34
PHOTO COURTESY OF MINEOLA SCHOOL DISTRICT
Mineola learners in the extended school year program took a trip last week to Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park.
Anti-LGBTQ+ laws in La. drive gay doctor to NHP BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y Dr. Jake Kleinmahon, a New Orleans-based physician who specializes in pediatric heart conditions, said he came back to Louisiana five years ago to help build a specialty program second to none. “We really planted our roots in New Orleans because they needed someone to build a heart transplant program,” Kleinmahon, the medical director at Oschner Hospital for Children’s pediatric heart trans-
plant, heart failure and ventricular assist device programs, told Blank Slate Media. But a growing sentiment in the state sparked by three bills targeting LGBTQ+ people has led Kleinmahon, his husband and two children to pack their bags for Long Island. Kleinmahon, a Westchester native, said he accepted an offer from Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park to join the hospital in a similar role and plans to move by the end of the month.
“When we moved back down, we knew we were moving to a state that historically has been fairly socially conservative,” Kleinmahon said about returning to the South after working in Colorado. “But New Orleans is an area that accepts all people of all walks of life.” Earlier this year, Louisiana lawmakers approved anti-LGBTQ bills that included a ban on genderaffirming care for minors, outlining Continued on Page 35