St. John’s Dialysis Center Awarded for Excellent Care
Posted on October 3, 2018
FAR ROCKAWAY, 2018—Wednesday, October 3, St. John’s Episcopal Hospital’s Marjorie Basser Dialysis Center received the IPRO End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Network of New York Quality Recognition Award for ESRD Quality Incentive Program Achievement: Arteriovenous Fistula/Graft. This award recognizes institutions that have a high instance of using Arteriovenous Fistula (AVF) instead of a Catheter, which is considered to be a less-than-ideal approach for dialysis patients. The award was granted by the End-Stage Renal Disease Network of New York and recognizes outstanding performance by healthcare providers and patient representatives across New York State.
“We are all very proud of the staff at the Marjorie Basser Center and are glad to see that their efforts are being recognized in the New York State healthcare community,” said St. John’s CEO, Gerard Walsh. “We are excited to continue to provide all of our patients with excellent levels of care.”
Congratulations to all of the staff members in the Marjorie Basser Dialysis Center for all of their hard work!
About St. John’s
St. John’s Episcopal Hospital is the only hospital providing emergency and ambulatory care to the densely
populated, culturally and economically diverse, and medically underserved populations of the Rockaways and
Five Towns in southern Queens County and southwestern Nassau County, New York. Celebrating over 110
years of community care, the 257-bed facility provides people of all faiths with comprehensive preventive,
diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitative services, regardless of ability to pay.
St. John's is accredited by The Joint Commission’s Health Facilities Accreditation Program and is approved by the New York State Department of Health. The Hospital is a recipient of the Gold-Plus Get with the Guidelines®-Stroke Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association.
St. John’s is also a teaching hospital, training over 180 residents annually in 10 Graduate Medical Education Programs accredited by the New York State Department of Education. Our Family Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics, Rotating Internship and Ophthalmology Programs are accredited by the American Osteopathic Association and affiliated with Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. Internal Medicine, Dermatology and Psychiatry are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Graduate Medical Education Programs in Podiatry and Wound Care are accredited by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education.
The hospital strives to support area residents to achieve optimal health outcomes and quality of life. Services extend beyond inpatient and outpatient care to include outreach to the community to improve health status. Outreach services include behavioral health screening, screening for hypertension, asthma and diabetes, information on health insurance, social work and nutrition counseling, and the Speaker's Bureau, which offers assistance to community organizations by arranging for doctors, nurses, social workers, pastors, nutritionists, and other healthcare professionals who conduct health education on topics such as childbirth and parenting, diabetes, asthma, hypertension, grieving, weight management and nutrition, osteoporosis, cholesterol management, substance abuse, scabies, exercise, aging, depression and emergency care. The hospital's mobile health van offers Education on Wheels programs to support the community’s health initiatives and healthcare partners on the Peninsula.
OUR MISSION
St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in partnership with our community provides exceptional
healthcare and education programs in an academic setting across the continuum of care.
We deliver high quality, value based services with cultural sensitivity to the faiths and
traditions of those we serve.
OUR VISION
St. John’s Episcopal Hospital will build an effective coalition aimed at achieving improved community
health status in a financially stable environment, with emphasis on serving the needs of our patients
and families, while training the physicians and healthcare providers of tomorrow
OUR VALUES: ICARE: I-Innovation C-Compassion A- Accountability R- Respect E- Empathy
