Updated May 2021
Mount Sinai Medical Center is located in Miami Beach, Florida, and is the largest independent nonprofit hospital in South Florida. The hospital was founded by Laurans Mendelson in 1949 and provides innovative and comprehensive care in cardiology, neuroscience, oncology, orthopedics, pulmonology, and urology.
Mount Sinai Medical Center has received America’s Top 250 Best Hospital Award (2020, 2021) by Healthgrades and has been named one of the 100 Top Hospitals in the Country list by IBM Watson Health. The hospital has received a 4-star rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
It was once considered a world-class hospital, but now its reputation is restricted to South Florida only.
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Overview Of Mount Sinai Medical Center
Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Florida, is rated high-performing in two adult specialties and three procedures and conditions. It is a teaching hospital.
Rankings And Ratings Of Mount Sinai Medical Center
- Cancer
- National rank: Not ranked
- Overall score: 32/100
- Conditions/procedures applicable to cancer:
- Lung cancer surgery: 3/5 (average score)
- Colon cancer surgery: 3/5 (average score)
- Cardiology And Heart Surgery
- National rank: Not ranked
- Overall score: 44.4/100
- Conditions/procedures applicable to cardiology and heart surgery:
- Heart failure: 5/5 (high performing)
- Heart bypass surgery: 3/5 (average)
- Abdominal, aortic, aneurysm repair: 3/5 (average score)
- Aortic valve surgery: 5/5 (high performing)
- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR): 2/5 (below average score)
- Orthopedics
- National rank: Not ranked
- Overall score: 36.5/100
- Conditions/procedures applicable to orthopedics:
- Hip replacement: 3/5 (average)
- Knee replacement: 3/5 (average)
- Pulmonology
- National rank: Not ranked
- Overall score: 54/100
- Conditions/procedures applicable to pulmonology:
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: 5/5 (high performing)
Patient Experience At Mount Sinai Medical Center
Scores are based on surveys taken from Mount Sinai Medical Center’s inpatients inquiring about the different aspects of their stays after they were discharged:
- Satisfaction with the hospital overall: 3/5
- Willingness to recommend: 3/5
- Satisfaction with doctors’ communications: 3/5
- Satisfaction with nurses’ communications: 3/5
- Satisfaction with efforts to prevent medication harm: 2/5
- Satisfaction with quality of discharge information: 2/5
- Satisfaction with involvement in recovery: 3/5
- Satisfaction with staff responsiveness: 2/5
- Satisfaction with hospital room cleanliness: 3/5
- Satisfaction with noise volume: 2/5
The hospital fared average in inpatient surveys. It scored 3 out of 5.
Mount Sinai Medical Center used to be one of the best hospitals in the country. Even if the hospital’s ratings are average, it has not been able to earn a national ranking.
Leapfrog General Safety Rating
The latest Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade of Mount Sinai Medical Center is B for the fall of 2020.
The Leapfrog Group rates Mount Sinai Medical Center in the categories below:
Infections
Problems With Surgery
Practices To Prevent Errors
- Doctor’s-order medication through a computer: Hospitals use computerized physicians order entry (CPOE) systems to order medications for patients in the hospital instead of writing prescriptions by hand. CPOE systems help reduce medication errors in hospitals.
- Mount Sinai Medical Center score: 100
- Best hospital score: 100
- Average hospital score: 83.56
- Worst hospital score: 5
Mount Sinai Medical Center performed best in the category, with no errors reported.
- Safe medication administration: Using bar codes on medications, nurses scan the medications and then the patient’s wrist bracelet to make sure that the patient is receiving the right medications. Bar code medication administration (BCMA) reduces the risk of a nurse accidentally giving the wrong medication to a patient.
- Mount Sinai Medical Center score: 100
- Best hospital score: 100
- Average hospital score: 83.44
- Worst hospital score: 5
Mount Sinai Medical Center performed best in this category.
Safety Problems
Doctors, Nurses And Hospital Staff
Leapfrog has given better than average ratings to Mount Sinai. For a hospital with a glorious past, the ratings are a testimony to the fact that the standards have declined at the hospital in recent times.
Healthgrades
Healthgrades has chosen Mount Sinai Medical Center for awards in numerous categories. Some of the awards are:
- America’s Top 250 Best Hospital Award (2021, 2020)
- Patient Safety Excellence Award (2021)
- America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Gastrointestinal Care Award (2021, 2021)
- America’s 100 Best Hospitals for General Surgery Award (2021, 2021)
- America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Pulmonary Care Award (2021)
- America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Prostate Surgery Award 2021, 2020)
- Neuroscience Excellence Award (2021)
- Pulmonary Excellence Award (2020)
- Stroke Care Excellence Award (2019)
Safety Ratings
Three ratings were better than expected:
- Hip fracture following surgery
- Respiratory failure following surgery
- Bloodstream infection following surgery
One rating was worse than expected:
- Acute kidney dysfunction following surgery
Ten ratings were as expected.
No cases relating to foreign objects left in the body during a surgery or procedure were reported at the hospital.
Patient Experience
- Patient Ratings
- 72% of patients gave a rating of 9 or 10 (3% higher than the national average).
- 75% said they would definitely recommend (5% higher than the national average).
- Care Team Ratings
- Communication With Doctors
80% of patients said that doctors always listened to them and explained things well (1% lower than the national average of 81%).
- Communication With Nurses
77% of patients said that nurses always listened to them and explained things well (1% lower than the national average of 78%).
- Communication About Medicines
63% of patients said that staff members always explained medicines before they were given to them (same as the national average).
- Discharge Information
82% of patients were given information about recovering at home (2% lower than the national average of 84%).
- Care Transition
57% of patients said that they understood their care needs when they left the hospital (4% higher than the national average of 53%).
- Responsiveness Of Hospital
61% of patients said that they always received help quickly from hospital staff (5% lower than the national average of 66%).
- Facility Report
- Quietness
66% of patients said that their rooms and the areas around them were always quiet at night (6% higher than the national average of 60%).
- Cleanliness
76% of patients said that their rooms and bathrooms were always kept clean (3% higher than the national average of 73%).
Mount Sinai Medical Center won multiple awards from Healthgrades, and its patients gave the hospital a good rating, too, in Healthgrades surveys. Patient experience ratings of the hospital were on par with the national average of almost each parameter that is a component of the patient experience.
Contact Us For More Information
If you believe that inadequate care or negligence on the part of the medical staff at Mount Sinai Medical Center has negatively affected you or your loved one, then it is important to speak to an experienced medical malpractice lawyer. For more information on your legal options, contact Kaire & Heffernan, by calling (305) 876-6001 or reaching out to us online today.
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