Forbes Names NYU Winthrop One of "America's Best Employers" for 2017

MINEOLA, N.Y., May 9, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NYU Winthrop Hospital has been selected by Forbes magazine as one of their "America's Best Employers" for 2017. Out of the nation's 500 top employers, NYU Winthrop was ranked 18^th overall.

This recognition highlights the hospital's commitment to building a culture that enables every employee to leverage their unique talents to eliminate the barriers between ideas and outcomes for patients. The full report is featured online at https://www.forbes.com/best-employers/list/#tab:rank.

"We are honored to be recognized by Forbes. It has always been our philosophy that if our physicians, nurses, entire medical staff and all of our other valued employees are happy and proud to work at NYU Winthrop, that this will translate into the highest quality medical care possible," said John Collins, President and CEO of NYU Winthrop. "We consider all who work at NYU Winthrop to be family, and this recognition underscores that the workplace environment that has long existed here has allowed each and every employee and medical professional to achieve their personal best.  NYU Winthrop personnel like each other, respect each other and take care of each other  which has created an environment that allows us to treat our patients like family. Patients sense this, and often remark about the unbelievable "caring" they experience at NYU Winthrop."

Working with online statistics provider Statista, Forbes asked more than 30,000 U.S. workers to determine, on a scale of zero to 10, how likely they were to recommend their employer to someone else. Further, how did they feel about the other employers in their industry?

The employees who took part in the survey were consulted anonymously through several online access panels. Their scores were analyzed using the net promoter score theory — and involved highly-selective criteria — to determine the company's eligibility and rank as one of America's Best Employers.

This year's list includes 500 employers across 25 industries ranging from hospitals to corporate giants to universities and government agencies.

About NYU Winthrop Hospital
Founded in 1896 by a group of local physicians and concerned citizens, Long Island's first voluntary hospital is a 591-bed university-affiliated medical center and an American College of Surgeons  (ACS) Adult Level 1Trauma Center which offers a full complement of inpatient and outpatient programs and services for the newborn through the elderly in a dynamic, progressive environment. With one of the top cardiac programs in the region, NYU Winthrop Hospital holds its rightful place among the top five Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) centers in the country.  A leader and innovator in the many specialty areas, NYU Winthrop Hospital is home to the first Diabetes Education Program in New York State and was the first major teaching hospital in New York State to earn The Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval™ for its Advanced Inpatient Diabetes Care. 

Consistently recognized for quality patient care, NYU Winthrop's awards, recognitions and accreditations are many including recent national recognition for excellence in nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Center's (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program® – the highest recognition that a hospital can earn in the area of nursing excellence. 

Ever changing and growing with the diverse community it serves, NYU Winthrop Hospital is, in many ways, a unique institution, simultaneously large and small, regional as well as local. It successfully blends the progressive philosophy, sophistication and advances of a teaching and research institution with a very personal approach to patient care – an approach that has become the cornerstone of our organization.

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