Hospital Reports
Performance Reporting
How can you find the best quality hospital for the care you need? Does your choice of hospitals really matter? Research shows that some hospitals do a better or worse job than others, and it is becoming increasingly easier to figure out which ones do the better job. Free public hospital reports are available in most states, as well as several national report cards. Browse these Web sites to find out how hospitals perform based on specific criteria, and to learn more about hospital performance reporting:
New York State Hospital
ProfileConsumer-oriented Web database of every hospital and extension clinic in New York, including quality, outcomes, surgical volume and available services.
hospitals.nyhealth.gov
Illinois
Hospital Report Card and Consumer Guide to Health Care Consumer focused online Report card profiling hospitals and ambulatory surgical treatment centers in the state of Illinois, including comparative quality, outcomes and charge data.
healthcarereportcard.illinois.gov
Regional Health Care
Report CardMulti-state, multi-setting report card format displays quality and pricing data on commercial HMOs and hospitals in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont.
hcrc.abouthealthquality.org/
About
Health Satisfaction
Every hospital that sees Medicare patients is required to administer a customer satisfaction/patient experience survey. This Web site displays satisfaction data for all hospitals in the US,
searchable by map or ZIP code.
abouthealthsatisfaction.org
About
Health Transparency
More hospital reports can be found on our health care transparency blog. We also want to hear from you if you have produced a Web or printed health care report card of any kind.
abouthealthtransparency.org
whynotthebest.org
Visit the Department of Health and Human Services' national Hospital Compare Web site to find information on how well hospitals care for patients with certain medical conditions or surgical procedures, and results from a survey of patients about the quality of care they received during a recent hospital stay.
Another great resource for researching your health care options is available at Consumer Health Ratings, you can jump directly to their hospital ratings.