Hospital Care Quality Tool

Have you had a chance to check out the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (DHHS) hospital quality tool, Hospital Compare?
The tool is a product of a collaboration between DHHS, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA). It allows patients to search and compare hospitals based on the following four categories:

hospital process of care measures
hospital outcome of care measures
survey of patients’ hospital experiences
medicare payment and volume

Information about patients’ hospital experiences, which might be the most interesting to people trying to …read more