Quality Metrics & Milestones
Our Quality Outcomes for Stroke Treatments
Stony Brook University Hospital continuously strives for excellence in providing care for our patients to achieve the best possible health outcomes.
Our quality metrics are reviewed on a continual basis and process improvements are ongoing. Sharing our outcome data publicly is important as it helps people make an informed decision on where to seek the best medical care.
Our experienced, highly-trained stroke team performs all the latest procedures, 24/7. Our expertise includes the latest diagnostic tools, every FDA-approved, minimally invasive stroke intervention technique and access to major ongoing clinical trials.
While our expertise in stroke care is well known on Long Island, we have the hard data to back it up. Below are our most recent quality metrics for some of the stroke treatments we offer:
- Treatment of acute ischemic stroke patients with IV tPA (an important clot buster drug)
- Treatment of carotid artery disease, with options including: carotid artery stent placement and carotid endarterectomy
- Diagnostic testing such as cerebral angiography performed to evaluate the blood vessels in the brain
Treatments | Number treated in 2023 | Complication Rate |
|---|---|---|
IV thrombolytic | less than 100 | 0% |
Cerebral angiography (procedure to evaluate blood vessels) | over 500 | 0% |
Symptomatic carotid endarterectomy | less than 100 | 0% |
Symptomatic carotid artery stent | less than 100 | 0% |
Cerebrovascular & Comprehensive Stroke Center Milestones
Awards and Accreditations
- The ONLY hospital in New York State to be named as one of America's 100 Best Hospitals™ by Healthgrades for stroke care for the past ten years (2016 - 2025)
- 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 14 consecutive years (2010 - 2024), with added distinctions of "Target: Stroke Honor Roll" (2014, 2017), "Target: Stroke Honor Roll-Elite" (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024),"Target: Stroke Honor Roll-Elite Plus" (2017, 2021, 2022), inaugural recipient of "Target: Stroke Advanced Therapy Honor Roll" (2020, 2023, 2024), and recipient of "Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll" (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
- 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
