Thankful at Year's End...

Dear Physician,

As 2016 draws to a close, I want to take a moment to thank you for being a critical part of our ongoing growth, and our success at being the trusted source of high quality healthcare for patients and families in Suffolk County and beyond.  Because of you, Huntington Hospital was the top-rated community hospital in NY by US News in 2016, recognized also by the Joint Commission, American College of Surgeons and other quality organizations as providing exceptional care in specialties from Orthopaedics, Gynecologic Surgery, Breast Care and Bariatrics to Palliative Medicine and Oncology.  

Carrying on our medical staff's tradition of continuous improvement, a number of you made specific contributions to quality improvement initiatives.  I won’t even try, in this limited space, to list the individual physicians whose work is making this progress possible:  an Advanced Illness Collaborative is addressing the changing needs of our patients at the end of life, when curative treatment is no longer effective...the Sepsis Collaborative is continuing to make inroads in care that are decreasing mortality from this common condition, here at Huntington and across Northwell...an Anticoagulation Collaborative, now well established across our health system, started at our institution and continues its mission to reduce morbidity and mortality due to preventable venous thromboembolic events...a Critical Care initiative, known as ABCDE, is improving outcomes for ventilated patients through a “bundle” of evidence-based interventions.  This is a very incomplete list, leaving out the great work being done on our Perinatal service, in Emergency Medicine, at the Dolan Family Health Center and elsewhere.

None of this recognition and none of this improvement work would mean anything to us as physicians, if it did not reflect the reality of care at the bedside – one patient at a time receiving care that is clinically advanced, carefully coordinated and delivered by physicians who care deeply about those who come to our hospital seeking help at the darkest times of life.

I am grateful beyond words for your commitment to our shared profession, to Huntington Hospital and its mission, and to the families of our community.   Please accept my sincerest best wishes for this Holiday Season and for a New Year that brings good health, happiness and fulfillment.

Warmest regards,

Michael

Michael B Grosso, MD, FAAP