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Top left menu. Nyack, NY, August 12, 2026 - Montefiore Nyack Hospital has earned the Leapfrog Full Transparency Badge, recognizing the hospital's commitment to publicly reporting information about patient safety and quality through the annual Leapfrog Hospital Survey. The Full Transparency Badge is awarded to hospitals that complete, affirm, and submit all sections of the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, one of the nation's leading voluntary reporting programs focused on patient safety, quality, and transparency. Trust begins with transparency, said Anthony Matejicka, DO, MPH, FACP, vice president, chief medical officer at Montefiore Nyack Hospital. Montefiore Nyack is deeply honored to be recognized by The Leapfrog Group for its commitment to sharing patient safety information and quality data openly with the community. This is not the first time The Leapfrog Group recognized Montefiore Nyack Hospital. Earlier this spring, The Leapfrog Group awarded the hospital with an A safety grade. In addition, the hospital earned accolades from US News & World Report as one of the best Home Care Agencies in 2026; and most recently, The American Heart Association presented the hospital with a Get With The Guidelines(R)- Stroke Gold Plus award for demonstrating its commitment to delivering evidence-based, life-saving stroke care. Castle Connolly also named Montefiore Nyack Hospital as a leader in patient care, earning a spot on the organization's Top Hospitals list for a New York State Procedure Award for General Surgery. Montefiore Nyack applaud Montefiore Nyack Hospital for its commitment to transparency, said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. Transparency is one of the most powerful drivers of improvement in health care. By fully participating in the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, Montefiore Nyack Hospital is helping patients and families access meaningful information about the safety and quality of their care. The Leapfrog Full Transparency Badge appears on Leapfrog's public ratings website and identifies hospitals that have committed to openly sharing information about their performance. About Montefiore Nyack Hospital Montefiore Nyack Hospital is a 375-bed community acute care medical and surgical hospital founded in 1895. Its mission is to provide competent, innovative, and accessible emergency and acute care services to the residents of Rockland County, NY, and its surrounding areas. It is a member of Montefiore Health System and a partner with Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, providing clinical rotations to medical students. To learn more, visit www.montefiorenyack.org; follow Montefiore Nyack on Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and Instagram; view Montefiore Nyack on YouTube. About The Leapfrog Group Founded in 2000 by large employers and other purchasers, The Leapfrog Group is an independent national nonprofit organization driving a movement for patient safety and transparency. Leapfrog collects, analyzes, and publicly reports data on hospital and ambulatory surgery center performance to help patients, purchasers, and other stakeholders make informed health care decisions. Leapfrog's flagship initiatives include the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, a biannual letter grade focused exclusively on hospital safety, and the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, a voluntary survey that publicly reports hospital performance on patient safety and quality measures. Leapfrog's ratings and reports are peer-reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public. For more from Leapfrog, follow Montefiore Nyack on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram and sign up for its newsletter.

Top left menu. Nyack, NY, August 12, 2026 - Montefiore Nyack Hospital has been named among U.S. News & World Report's 2026-2027 Best Hospitals edition as a High Performing hospital for Heart Failure, Kidney Failure, Leukemia, Lymphoma & Myeloma, and Pneumonia. This is the highest distinction a hospital can earn as part of U.S. News' Best Hospitals Procedures & Conditions ratings. Fewer than half of the thousands of hospitals evaluated earned a 'High Performing' designation in the types of care evaluated by U.S. News. Earlier this year, Montefiore Nyack Hospital also received designation as a High Performing Hospital for Maternity Care for the third year in a row and a Best Home Health Care Agency in this inaugural ranking. U.S. News' annual Procedures & Conditions ratings are designed to assist patients and their health care providers in making informed decisions about where to receive care for challenging health conditions or elective procedures. When a patient needs specialty care, they should take comfort in knowing that it can be provided at the highest level right here in its community, said Mark E. Geller, MD, FACR, president and CEO of Montefiore Nyack. At Montefiore Nyack Hospital, Montefiore Nyack pride ourselves on providing a wide range of exceptional clinical services while keeping patient experience at the center of everything Montefiore Nyack do. This recognition from U.S. News & World Report reflects its ongoing commitment to delivering high-quality care close to home, and Montefiore Nyack is honored to be recognized among its Best Hospitals. When patients face a major surgery or a chronic medical condition, having access to clear, quality data is vital, said U.S. News' Managing Editor and Chief of Health Analysis Ben Harder. A 'High Performing' rating means that Montefiore Nyack Hospital outperformed a national threshold, giving families a reliable starting point as they consult with their doctors to choose the best place for care. U.S. News evaluated nearly 4,500 hospitals across 14 adult specialties and 23 procedures and conditions; less than half earned recognition in any of those 37 areas of care. To determine the Best Hospitals, U.S. News analyzed each hospital's performance based on objective measures such as risk-adjusted mortality rates, preventable complications and patient experience. The Best Hospitals Specialty rankings methodology and Procedures & Conditions ratings methodology measure patient outcomes using data from over 800 million records of patient care. About Montefiore Nyack Hospital Montefiore Nyack Hospital is a 375-bed community acute care medical and surgical hospital founded in 1895. Its mission is to provide competent, innovative, and accessible emergency and acute care services to the residents of Rockland County, NY, and its surrounding areas. It is a member of Montefiore Health System and a partner with Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, providing clinical rotations to medical students. To learn more, visit www.montefiorenyack.org; follow Montefiore Nyack on Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and Instagram; view Montefiore Nyack on YouTube. About U.S. News & World Report U.S. News & World Report is the global leader for journalism that empowers consumers, citizens, business leaders and policy officials to make confident decisions in all aspects of their lives and communities. A multifaceted media company, U.S. News provides unbiased rankings, independent reporting and analysis, and consumer advice to millions of people on USNews.com each month. A pillar in Washington for more than 90 years, U.S. News is the trusted home for in-depth and exclusive insights on education, health, politics, the economy, insurance, personal finance, travel, automobiles, real estate, careers and consumer products and services.

12 nurses say they are being replaced by AI. - New York hospital nurses say this move is just the "tip of the iceberg" by Shannon Firth, Enterprise & Investigative Writer, MedPage Today Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, fired 12 nurses and plans to replace them with artificial intelligence (AI) software, said nurses and city and state officials during a call with reporters on Wednesday. The change comes on the heels of a February agreementopens in a new tab or window between the nurses' union and the Montefiore hospital system that ended a nearly month-long strikeopens in a new tab or window. Nurses say the terminations directly violate that agreement, and the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) has filed a class action grievance. A spokesperson for Montefiore Health System says the claims are "inaccurate and misleading." In late May, Ajita Mathew, RN, who has been a nurse for 36 years and is a member of Montefiore's utilization review team, received a letter from the manager of Labor and Employee Relationsopens in a new tab or window stating that her position would be eliminated in 45 days. "During this time, the Medical Center will work closely with you to determine whether there are suitable positions that [are] in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement," the letter stated. "Montefiore recognizes the commitment you have made to its patients and will work hard to make this transition easier for you." All 12 nurses on the utilization review team received a similar letter, NYSNA said. Marilyn Shuler, RN, who has worked at Montefiore for 39 years, said nurses had been told that "someone" would be sending necessary clinical information from patients' charts to payers, but no one made clear whether that task would fall to a nurse or a machine. Utilization review nurses have a "vast knowledge" based on years of experience, Shuler said during the Wednesday call. "So much of what we do cannot be reduced... to a click." New York City Council member Shirley Aldebol, who advocated for Montefiore to stop its "45-day displacement clock," said she's worried replacing "complicated clinical judgment by real nurses" with AI will lead to dropped cases, missed diagnoses, unapproved surgeries, and other patient services being denied. Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, RN, an emergency department nurse at Montefiore and former NYSNA president, said utilization review teams exist because insurers want to save money and not pay for prolonged visits if they can avoid it. "The patients require a human being to advocate for [them] to see if the visit is necessary," she noted. If a patient's situation improves but they're not well enough to go home, an algorithm can't make those calls, she pointed out. "These algorithms just take very raw data and make a conclusion... without taking into account the patient's gender, race, ethnicity, cultural needs, physical needs, and clinical needs, because they can't do that analysis," Sheridan-Gonzalez said. Unlike an algorithm, nurses reviewing charts have access to people and can say, "There's something missing here. Let me go find out what that is." "This is all about human beings, about their outcomes," she added. "It's about... what's going to happen while they're in the hospital, what kind of teaching needs do they have, what learning needs do they have, what kind of support do they have at home? How will they survive when they go home?" It's about "other complex conditions that come into play here, which require a different type of assessment. Only a human being can do that," she argued. Sheridan-Gonzalez also pointed out that the changes violate the most recent union agreement, which states "that any use of AI really has to be discussed with the union to ensure that our patients are protected." "Montefiore is denying that AI has anything to do with this, which we know is not true," she noted. In a statement to Gothamist,opens in a new tab or window Joe Solomonese, a spokesperson for Montefiore Health System, blasted the nurses' claims. "As is often the case, the claims by NYSNA are inaccurate and misleading," Solomonese said. "What is true is that we are always investing in new technology to ensure the best care and outcomes for our patients and will continue to do so for the betterment of the people we serve." The nurses said Montefiore changed its utilization review process earlier this year, using AI-powered software from Datavant, a private equity-backed health IT company. In May, Datavant settled a class action lawsuitopens in a new tab or window following a data breach that impacted 320,702 individuals. Sheridan-Gonzalez said that this move is the "tip of the iceberg." They started with nurses doing documentation, "but who's to say that in the future they won't replace... other nurses who actually touch patients, work with patients in the hospital, have that intimate relationship... with something else, whether it's a machine or a robot or some kind of algorithm," she pointed out. "Nurses are not against technology," said Shaiju Kalathil, RN, an NYSNA executive committee member at Montefiore. "The problem is when hospitals roll out new technologies without evidence that these technologies will improve the lives of patients and working people, and worse, with evidence that patient care may suffer, and jobs will be long lost." Shuler stressed that "what we want is simple: to stop layoffs, the hospital to keep a licensed nurse to complete the utilization review and sit down with the nurses who do this work, [and] discuss how AI can support us instead of replacing us."