For Robert I. Grossman, MD, “3+2=1” is less of an equation than a credo. From his vantage point as dean and CEO, it signifies the cumulative impact of two recent and remarkable landmarks in the history of NYU Langone Health. This July, NYU Langone grabbed headlines when it ranked as the No. 3 hospital in the nation on U.S. News & World Report’s influential 2022–23 “Best Hospitals” Honor Roll and claimed the No. 1 spot in New York State. Just 4 months earlier, NYU Grossman School of Medicine climbed to the No. 2 spot for research on U.S. News & World Report’s 2022–23 list of “Best Graduate Schools,” rocketing up from No. 34 in 2010.

Together, the rankings tell part of a much bigger story about what happens when a rapidly growing organization embraces one exactingly high standard. “While no single ranking accurately reflects our exceptionalism in everything we do,” notes Dr. Grossman, “the most respected quality and safety rankings consistently place us at the top of the heap in our region, in our state, and in the nation.”

The latest rankings, which include NYU Langone’s inpatient locations in Manhattan, as well as NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn and NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island, are one of many red-hot indicators that the institution is living up to its mission “to serve, to teach, to discover.” The distinction caps a long string of achievements that confirm why independent healthcare performance improvement organizations like Vizient, Inc. and The Leapfrog Group have routinely named NYU Langone among the top hospitals nationwide for quality and safety, and why the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have honored the institution with a five-star rating.

To paraphrase the great philosopher Aristotle, sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. And this is one of those times. Notes Dr. Grossman, “I believe this year’s hospital ranking signifies that we can rightfully claim the mantle of the top academic health system in the country.”

NYU Langone Scores Top Marks

Specialty ratings can help patients with complex or high-risk conditions decide where to get care. U.S. News & World Report’s 2022–23 hospital rankings rate more than a dozen specialties at NYU Langone, 11 of which are in the top 10 in the country:

• neurology and neurosurgery: No. 1
• diabetes and endocrinology: No. 3
• geriatrics: No. 3
• pulmonology and lung surgery: No. 4
• orthopedics: No. 4
• cardiology and heart surgery: No. 5
• gastroenterology and GI surgery: No. 5
• rehabilitation: No. 7
• rheumatology: No. 7
• urology: No. 10
• psychiatry: No. 10
• obstetrics and gynecology: No. 11
• cancer: No. 19
• ear, nose, and throat: No. 26