MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER

Acute Care Hospital in Brooklyn, NY 11219

MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER PROFILE

Maimonides Medical Center is an acute care hospital located in Brooklyn, NY 11219 that serves the Kings county area. This facility is a private non-profit hospital with emergency services.

MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER

4802 Tenth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11219
Phone: (718) 283-6000
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Patient Survey Summary Rating Summary Star Rating
The summary star rating combines data from different aspects of the patient’s experience of care to make hospital comparison easier.

Poor

ABOUT THIS PROVIDER

Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals What's an acute care hospital?
An acute care hospital provides inpatient medical care, services related for surgery and medical services for short-term illnesses, acute medical conditions or injuries.

Hospital Owner: Voluntary Non-profit - Private

Electronic Lab Results: Yes Able to receive lab results electronically
The provider has the ability of receiving laboratory results through a certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) system as discrete searchable data.

Electronically Track Patients Visits: Yes Able to track patients’ lab results, tests, and referrals electronically between visits
The provider is capable of tracking lab tests, diagnostic studies, or patient referrals through a certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) system.

Outpatient Safe Surgery Checklist: Yes Safe surgery checklist use (outpatient)
This hospital follows a safe surgery checklist based on accepted standards of practice. Safe surgery checklists include three critical perioperative periods: 1) The period before the administration of anesthesia; 2) The period before surgical skin incision; and 3) The period of closure of incision and before the patient leaving the operating room for outpatient surgical procedures.

Cardiac Surgery Registry: Yes Cardiac surgery registry
The provider participates in the cardiac surgery registry. Participation in this registry does not mean that the hospital is specialized or only provides this type of care. Registries provide hospitals with the information necessary to help them improve the care they provide.

General Surgery Registry: Yes General Surgery Registry
The provider participates in the general surgery registry. Registries provide hospitals with information necessary to help them improve the care they provide.

Nursing Care Registry: Yes Nursing care registry
The provider participates in the nursing care registry. This registry collects and analyzes information on nursing care topics, conditions, or procedures.

Inpatient Safe Surgery Checklist: Yes Safe surgery checklist use (inpatient)
This hospital follows a safe surgery checklist based on accepted standards of practice. Safe surgery checklists include three critical perioperative periods: 1) The period before the administration of anesthesia; 2) The period before surgical skin incision; and 3) The period of closure of incision and before the patient leaving the operating room for inpatient surgical procedures.


Emergency Services: Yes Emergency Department
This hospital provides emergency services which might include acute medical care or trauma care.

PATIENT EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

The hospital patient survey at Maimonides Medical Center is administered to a random sample of adult inpatients after discharge. The following are the results of some the survey’s five-star quality ratings.

Doctor Communication: Fair

Quiet Rooms: Poor

Cleanliness: Poor

Pain Management: Fair

Discharge Information: Fair

Patients Recommend this Hospital: Fair

EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT TIMES

These performance measures at Maimonides Medical Center show how rapidly emergency departments give recommended treatments known to get the best results for patients with certain common conditions. This information could help patients compare which hospitals provide the right care at the right time.

ER Wait Time: 41 minutes before being seen by a doctor.

Discharge Time: 3 hours 55 minutes before being sent home.

Time Before Admission: 9 hours 19 minutes before being admitted to hospital.

Transfer Time: 2 hours 58 minutes admitted before being taken to room.

Broken Bones: 51 minutes before receiving pain meds.

HOSPITAL HIGHLIGHTS

We have identified the following individual quality measures where Maimonides Medical Center has better average ratings than other hospitals in New York or where the hospital is performing better compared to national averages or benchmarks.

NEARBY HOSPITALS

The following providers were found within a 30 mile range from this location.
Hospital Name Address Emergency Services Distance
LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER150 55th Street
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Yes1.29 miCompare
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Brooklyn, NY 11215
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Brooklyn, NY 11203
Yes2.99 miCompare
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Brooklyn, NY 11203
Yes3.04 miCompare
NEW YORK COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF BROOKLYN, INC.2525 Kings Highway
Brooklyn, NY 11229
Yes3.16 miCompare
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Brooklyn, NY 11203
Yes3.7 miCompare
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Yes3.7 miCompare
CONEY ISLAND HOSPITAL2601 Ocean Parkway
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INTERFAITH MEDICAL CENTER1545 Atlantic Avenue
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Yes5.64 miCompare

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