U.S. News & World Report ranked Cohen Children’s Medical Center among the nation’s top pediatric hospitals for the 18th consecutive year.
Cohen Children’s Medical Center was rated the best children’s hospital on Long Island and ranked second highest in New York State – while earning top 50 national rankings for exceptional care in 10 pediatric specialties, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 to 2025 “Best Children’s Hospitals.”
“Being recognized as the best children’s hospital on Long Island by U.S. News & World Report is a profound honor, as it validates our commitment to delivering the highest level of compassionate care to our young patients,” Michael Dowling, president and CEO of Northwell Health, said in a press release. “At Cohen Children’s Medical Center, we understand that a child is a parent’s most treasured gift. We take making them well again to heart, but our mission goes beyond healing — we are also dedicated to creating a supportive, comforting environment for families and children while they are in our care.”
Not only did Cohen Children’s rank No. 2 in New York State, it also placed in the top 10
in the mid-Atlantic region, which includes Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.
In addition, Cohen Children’s achieved the highest rankings in New York State in the areas of pediatric nephrology and urology.
Cohen Children’s also achieved top 50 national rankings in 10 pediatric disciplines, including No. 25 for Neurology and Neurosurgery, No. 16 for Pediatric Urology, No. 17 for Pediatric Nephrology, No. 19 for Pediatric Pulmonology and Lung Surgery, No. 19 for Pediatric Orthopedics, No. 22 for Pediatric Cancer, No. 35 for Neonatology, No. 36 for Pediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology, No. 41 for Pediatric Gastroenterology and GI Surgery and top 50 for Pediatric and Adolescent Behavioral Health.
“It’s a remarkable achievement for Cohen Children’s to rank among the top 50 in U.S. News’s new category of Pediatric and Adolescent Behavior Health,” Charles Schleien, senior vice president of Cohen Children’s Medical Center and Pediatric Service, said in a press release.
“I’m also proud that our standings improved in seven out of 10 categories this year. This success, including Cohen’s sixth place ranking in the Atlantic region, reflects our unwavering commitment to providing the most sophisticated, state-of-the-art care across all of our major clinical areas.”
Schleien said the staff at Cohen Children’s Hospital spends every day evaluating the quality and safety of care for their patients. He said this, along with participating in many national initiatives that focus on high-quality care for children, contributed to the hospital’s high rank.
“We’re very active with the Children’s Hospital Association, which really has a very high standing, so the rank doesn’t come as a surprise,” Schleien said. “Our metrics are quite high and over the years, we have expanded our services to a point that we’re virtually full at this point.”
So far, admissions to the hospital this year are at 19,400. Outpatient visits this year is about 500,000.
Schleien said the hospital will continue to grow and improve through the various services it will offer in the future. He said the hospital is about to embark on its heart transplant and heart failure programs and is months away from starting its liver transplant program.
“We’ve been doing a number of things that really have been great initiatives at a national and international level,” Schleien said. “We have begun to do therapies for genetic diseases, using gene editing techniques for sickle cell disease. We are in the midst of building a major clinical genomics program so that we could be broadly testing all our patients early in life for conditions, genetic diseases and how patients will respond to medications.”
Mason Maier, 8, from Massapequa, was among the many children to receive treatment at the hospital. His parents brought him to the emergency department at Cohen Children’s Medical Center where tests revealed that Mason was living with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. To fight the disease, Maier underwent three years of chemotherapy and he also had to endure multiple hospital stays caused by infections or low white blood cell counts.
He has been deemed in remission for more than one year. In August, he signed an honorary contract at the hospital with the New York Mets to become a “Met for a Day.”
“We want to thank all the wonderful members of Mason’s care team at Cohen Children’s for helping Mason on his medical journey,” Laura Maier, Mason’s mom, said in a release. “And, of course, thank you to the Mets for making this dream come true. Baseball has always been a big part of Mason’s life and we’re so grateful that he gets to be here today with his favorite team.”
To view the U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospital’s” ranking, visit Health.USNews.com/best-hospitals/pediatric-rankings.
