The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital received an ENERGY STAR Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management, recognizing the Hospital's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency. It is the seventh award for NewYork-Presbyterian — more than any other hospital in the country — and the only award of its kind given this year to a hospital in the Northeast.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital ranks in more pediatric specialties than any other hospital in the metro New York area, according to the 2012-13 U.S. News & World Report Best Children's Hospital rankings released today. In addition, the Hospital is ranked among the top 10 nationally in the areas of Cardiology & Heart Surgery and Diabetes & Endocrinology.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's distinguished record in patient safety and quality received a pivotal boost this month when the National Quality Forum and The Joint Commission named the Hospital a winner of their prestigious John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital ranks #1 in New York and among the top 10 in the nation out of the nearly 5,000 hospitals evaluated by U.S. News & World Report for its 2012-13 Best Hospitals rankings. One of the largest and most comprehensive medical centers in the nation, the Hospital is currently being spotlighted on the critically-acclaimed national medical series "NY Med" from ABC News, which airs at 10 p.m. (ET) Tuesday evenings throughout the summer.

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Learn about the symptoms and risk factors for colorectal cancer and screenings available at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

The National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) has selected Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital to participate in a new national effort to accelerate the development of therapies for people with neurological diseases. NeuroNEXT (for Network for Excellence in Neuroscience Clinical Trials) links 25 sites through a common research infrastructure, streamlining the process to conduct clinical trials of promising therapies.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have developed a computer program that has tracked the manner in which different forms of dementia spread within a human brain. They say their mathematic model can be used to predict where and approximately when an individual patient's brain will suffer from the spread, neuron to neuron, of "prion-like" toxic proteins — a process they say underlies all forms of dementia.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's Westchester Division is the first hospital to join Westchester County's Westchester Green Business Challenge, a program which encourages companies and organizations to voluntarily "green" their operations and the environment.