(October 22, 2024) Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH) has again achieved national recognition by being named by Healthgrades® as one of America's 100 Best Hospitals for Stroke Care making it the ONLY hospital in New York State to be recognized among the top 5% nationally for Stroke Care 10 years in a row (2016-2025).
SBUH has also recognized by Healthgrades with numerous Excellence Awards and Five-Star Ratings across neurology/neurosurgery specialties, including:
●. Stroke Care Excellence Award™ (2016-2025)
● Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Stroke (2015-2025)
● Cranial Neurosurgery Excellence Award™ (2020-2025)
●. Five-Star Recipient for Cranial Neurosurgery (2020-2025)
● Neurosciences Excellence Award™ (2016-2025)
These ratings are important because Healthgrades — an online source for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals — focuses its ratings solely on clinical outcomes data. These include risk-adjusted mortality and complications data to provide critical feedback for patients and hospitals alike.
A Healthgrades’ 2025 analysis revealed that if all hospitals as a group performed similarly to five-star hospitals during the 2021-23 study period, on average, 224,958 lives could potentially have been saved and 141,692 complications could potentially have been avoided.
Leading the Field
Stony Brook University Hospital has a history of continuously raising the bar in stroke treatment and other cerebrovascular care:
- Suffolk County’s first Joint Commission (TJC)-certified Comprehensive Stroke Center (2018 and continuously recertified 2020-current) — offering endovascular treatment for stroke, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- 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 the Silver Beacon Award of Excellence (2024-2027) from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACA). This three-year award for our Neurocritical Care Unit (NCCU) recognizes unit caregivers who successfully improve patient outcomes and align practices with AACN's six Healthy Work Environment Standards. Stony Brook is one of only five NCCUs in New York State to receive this award.
- 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
Learn more about the Stony Brook Cerebrovascular and Comprehensive Stroke Center here.