Yonkers Hospital Is So Bad It Earns Only A 1-Star CMS Rating For Patient Experience – By Brian Harrod


CMS released new patient experience star ratings, giving 85 hospitals in America a rating of only one star and St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Yonkers was one of the low rated healthcare instatutions.

The federal administrator of the nation’s major healthcare programs assigned a patient experience star rating to 3,478 hospitals based on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems scores collected from Jan. 1, 2019, through Dec. 31, 2019.

More information on the methodology can be found here.

Based on the latest patient experience star ratings:

  • St. Joseph’s Medical Center and 84 other hospitals received only one star
  • 528 hospitals received two stars
  • 1,479 hospitals received three stars
  • 1,120 hospitals received four stars
  • 266 hospitals received five stars