Hospital and Surgeon Ratings and Rankings
How to Choose a Qualified Surgeon: Lessons From “Dr. Death”
Millions have listened to the new podcast series, “Dr. Death,” about a surgeon with a penchant for botching procedures and leaving patients crippled—or worse, dead. And I’ve been hearing concerns from my own patients with...
10 Best Hospital Cities’ in the US
To identify the “best hospital cities” in the U.S. and the world, cities were compared on 12 metrics that fell into one of the following three categories: quality of care, infrastructure and access. The metrics...
Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery Safety Reports by Hospital
Surgeries to repair a heart can be risky, and some deaths and complications are inevitable. Doctors and advocates have pushed to make pediatric heart surgery outcomes more transparent, so institutions would feel pressure to improve...
Becker’s “100 Great Hospitals in America.”
April 12th, 2019. Becker’s Healthcare is pleased to release the 2019 edition of its list of “100 great hospitals in America.” The hospitals included on this list have been recognized nationally for excellence in clinical...
25 Cities Where You Don’t Want to Get Sick
25. Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ > 30 day readmission rate:16.4% (highest 10%) > 30 day mortality rate:13.3% > Preventable hospitalizations: 48.6 per 1,000 patients > No. of physicians: 46.7 per 100,000 (lowest 10%) > Median household income: $45,508 (lowest...
How Does Your Local Hospital Stack Up
To find out how your local hospital stacks up with respect to patient safety and the procedures they offer check the hospital rating and ranking services that follow. No hospitals were assessed as high performers...
Choose the Best Surgeon
Guided by experts, death and complication rates are calculated for surgeons performing one of eight elective procedures in Medicare, carefully adjusting for differences in patient health, age and hospital quality. Use this website to know more...
Hospital Rating Systems Differ on Best and Worst
By REED ABELSON for the New York Times. Four popular national rating systems used by consumers to judge hospitals frequently come to very different conclusions about which hospitals are the best — or worst — potentially...
Most Expensive Hospitals
These are the 50 hospitals in the United States with the highest markup of prices over their actual costs. That means that they are charging out-of-network patients and the uninsured, as well as auto and...