Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla has been named a 2008/2009 Consumer Choice Award winner for overall quality and image by the people in the New York metropolitan area, in a survey conducted by the National Research Corporation of Lincoln, NE. This distinction makes the hospital one of only 238 facilities nationwide to receive this prestigious award in a study conducted on roughly 200,000 households. The survey was published recently in Modern Healthcare, a healthcare industry magazine.
The award identifies hospitals which healthcare consumers have chosen as having the highest quality and image in over 250 markets throughout the U.S. This is the thirteenth year group has awarded hospitals whose consumers have recognized them for providing the highest quality health care.
The rating places Westchester Medical Center in the company of institutions such as Johns Hopkins Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Yale-New Haven Hospital and Duke University Medical Center. Of the 3,200 hospitals rated by consumers in the study, the winning 238 rank highest in their metropolitan areas as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Each year National Research Corporation honors the most preferred hospitals for overall health care services in metropolitan areas based on a nationally syndicated study of more than 200,000 households. NRC is recognized as an innovative leader in the area of healthcare performance measurement and honors top-rated facilities based on consumer responses. NRC has conducted more consumer satisfaction studies than any other firm in the healthcare industry.
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