North Shore University Hospital is proud to have earned top 50 status in ten specialties according to U.S. News & World Report's 2025-26 Best Hospital rankings survey. It’s why the nation’s most brilliant minds come here to solve health care’s greatest obstacles for patients from all over—and for you.

We have Long Island’s best heart program located at our Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital campus, where the most experienced cardiac team** in the tri-state area is available, delivering the nation’s highest success rates for heart surgery.† Plus, we’re the only heart transplant facility on Long Island.

We’ve also pioneered first-in-the-world brain surgeries, performed by the most experienced neuro team in the region.‡

And after conducting the first liver transplant on Long Island, we now have the fastest growing transplant program in the state.§

We’ll keep discovering new ways to conquer health care’s greatest obstacles—so that whatever comes through our doors: challenge accepted.

_{**Data about hospitals’ patient volumes is based on U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-2024 Best Hospitals for Cardiology, Heart & Vascular Surgery scorecards for North Shore University Hospital, Lenox Hill Hospital, South Shore University Hospital and Staten Island University Hospital}

_{† Quality outcomes based on Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Harvest 1 2026 star ratings for isolated coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), isolated aortic valve replacement (AVR), isolated mitral valve (MV) replacement/repair, CABG + AVR replacement/repair, CABG + MV replacement/repair and multiprocedural}

_{‡ Based on 2022 SPARCS data; region is Queens and Long Island}

_{§ Source: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, 2024; Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, 2023}