Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center is a major teaching hospital in East Flatbush Brooklyn, now recognized to be among the highest performing hospitals in the United States by The Joint Commission'sTop Performers on Key Quality Measures ™. Kingsbrook joins just three other hospitals in the metro New York City area to receive this very prestigious recognition. More specifically, Kingsbrook attained top performer ranking in accountability measure performance in the areas of heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care. Rated an A in Hospital Safety consecutively by the prestigious Leap Frog Group, Kingsbrook has also garnered recognitions in excellence from Healthgrades for stroke care, IPRO for surgical care and NCQA for diabetes care.