1. The Neurosciences Institute Specialty Centers
  2. Cerebrovascular & Comprehensive Stroke Center
  3. Cerebrovascular & Comprehensive Stroke Center Milestones

Cerebrovascular & Comprehensive Stroke Center Milestones

Awards and Accreditations

US News - High Performing Hospital emblem US News - High Performing Hospital emblem America's Best 100 Stroke Care: 2016 - 2024
  • The ONLY hospital in New York State to be named as one of America's 100 Best HospitalsTM by Healthgrades for stroke care for the past nine years (2016 - 2024)
  • First Joint Commission (TJC)-certified Comprehensive Stroke Center in Suffolk County (2018, and continuous recertified (2020 - present) — offering end-vascular treatment for stroke, 24-hours a day, 7 days a week.
  • Designated a public health-certified stroke center (2005) and earned one of only two Joint Commission (JCAHO)-Certified Primary Stroke Centers in Suffolk County (2004) 
  • Recipient of Gold Plus Achievement Award from the American Stroke Association for the "Get with the Guidelines" Stroke Program for 13 consecutive years (2010 - 2023), with added distinctions of "Target: Stroke Honor Roll" (2014, 2017), "Target: Stroke Honor Roll-Elite" (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023),"Target: Stroke Honor Roll-Elite Plus" (2017, 2021, 2022), inaugural recipient of "Target: Stroke Advanced Therapy Honor Roll" (2020, 2023), and recipient of "Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll" (2021, 2022, 2023) 
  • Recipient of Silver Plus Achievement Award from the American Stroke Association for the "Get with the Guidelines" Stroke Program (2009)
  • Recipient of Bronze Award from the American Stroke Association for the "Get with the Guidelines" Stroke Program (2008)

Leading the Field

  • Long Island's first and only Mobile Stroke Unit Program, designed to provide specialized, life-saving care to people within the critical moments of stroke before they even get to the hospital.
  • Suffolk County's only Adult and Pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center (the highest level as verified by the American College of Surgeons (ACS)
  • First institution in the country to treat cerebral aneurysm with the Pipeline™ Flex Embolization device in the setting of the COCOA and PUFS clinical research trials
  • First institution on Long Island to utilize Onyx® for arteriovenous malformations and aneurysms
  • First institution on Long Island to utilize the Penumbra System® for clot removal in acute ischemic stroke
  • First to offer intracranial stroke treatment with novel temporary endovascular bypass technology