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NYU Langone Medical Center celebrates our extraordinary friends and benefactors
for generously donating $1 billion in less than four years. You have helped save and
enrich countless lives, attract world-class scientists and clinicians, propel discoveries in our
laboratories, and build a bright future for our students. This historic philanthropic milestone is
paving the way for our continued leadership in the fi eld of medicine for generations to come.
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In Less Than Four Years, NYU Langone Garners
an Unprecedented $1 Billion in Philanthropy
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The main section of The New York Times on Sunday, June 5, 2011, brought some startling and
refreshingly good news, though not in the form of an article. A full-page ad—framed in violet,
New York University’s signature color, and graced with a photo of N YU Langone Medical
The sum represents more than 66,000 separate gifts, ranging from less than $1 to
four gifts of $100 million or more, from some 51,000 donors, a community of patrons that
includes members of our own faculty and staff. The gifts date from September 2007, soon
after Robert I. Grossman, MD, the Saul J. Farber Dean and CEO, took the helm of the
Medical Center, to June 2011.
“This is a truly historic moment for our Medical Center,” notes Kenneth G.
Langone, chair of N YU Langone’s Board of Trustees. “We have the most extraordinary
friends and benefactors who, through their generosity of spirit and action, have
helped propel N YU Langone Medical Center to the forefront of clinical care, scientific
research, and medical education. Their belief in us and in the work we do is unsurpassed.
We thank them from the bottom of our hearts.”
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As NYU Langone Expands Programs
to Improve Patient Outcomes, Its Reputation Shines
Recent Data Place Medical Center Among the
Nation’s Top Leaders in Quality and Safety
Statistics tend to be eye-glazers, but when they
reassure patients about the quality and safety of their
medical care, they are music to the ears. A recently
launched web site, www.whynotthebest.org, enables
“We’ve been working very hard
for several years on improving
processes and safety across
virtually every area of patient
care, and our outcomes are now
among the best in the country.”
the public to track and compare the performance
of any hospital in America—over 4,500 institutions
in all—that provides data to the federal Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
How does N YU Langone Medical Center
fare? In several areas that are considered key
outcome indicators of quality care—including 30-
day mortality rates and “process of care” measures
for patients with a heart attack, heart failure, or
pneumonia—N YU Langone stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the country’s leaders.
“Our mortality rates are among the lowest in
the nation, and that’s quite an accomplishment,”
says Martha Radford, MD, professor of medicine and
chief quality officer. “We’ve been working very hard
for several years on improving processes and safety
across virtually every area of patient care, and our
outcomes are now among the best in the country.
We deliver truly excellent care to our patients.”
With an average Overall Recommended Care
score of 98.5%, N YU Langone is among the top 10%
of hospitals nationwide. This score encompasses 28
different Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) measures—
Joshua Bright
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