Comparative Reports on Hospitals
The following reports are examples of comparative information on the quality of care provided by hospitals.
Report Title: Hospital Compare
Website: https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html. Accessed July 14, 2022.
Developer: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Developer Type: Federal government
Location: United States
Synopsis: Hospital Compare offers information on the quality and cost of care provided at Medicare-certified hospitals in the United States. The information provided on the website includes geographical distance, an overall star rating, patient experience scores, whether the hospital provides timely and effective care, complications, mortality rates, unplanned hospital visits (including readmission rates), effective treatment and patient safety in psychiatric units, and payments for care with a comparison to the national average.
Report Title: Cal Hospital Compare
Website: https://calhospitalcompare.org/. Accessed July 14, 2022.
Developer: Cal Healthcare Compare
Developer Type: State agency
Location: California
Synopsis: Cal Hospital Compare rates hospitals in California on clinical quality, patient experience, and patient safety. Ratings, which include superior, above average, average, below average, and poor, are developed using analysis and scoring of multiple sources of public data. Users can filter measures by angioplasty, blood clots, heart attack, heart failure, mother and baby, patient experience, and pneumonia, among others.
Report Title: Quality Check
Website: http://www.qualitycheck.org. Accessed July 14, 2022.
Developer: The Joint Commission
Developer Type: Health care accreditor
Location: United States
Synopsis: Quality Check is a searchable report that can be used to find Joint Commission-accredited health care organizations in the United States. The report includes the following information: accreditation and certification decision; sites and available services; National Patient Safety Goal compliance; National Quality Improvement performance goals; and special quality awards received.
Report Title: Leapfrog Hospital Ratings
Website: http://www.leapfroggroup.org/ratings-reports. Accessed July 14, 2022.
Developer: The Leapfrog Group
Developer Type: Non-profit employer-sponsored health care quality organization
Location: United States
Synopsis: Leapfrog Hospital Ratings include a comparative report on the performance of adult and free-standing pediatric general acute care hospitals in the United States that have voluntarily completed the Leapfrog Hospital Survey. This survey collects safety, quality, and resource use information related to inpatient care management, maternity care, high-risk surgeries, medication safety, and hospital-acquired conditions.
Report Title: Hospital Safety Score
Website: http://www.hospitalsafetyscore.org/. Accessed July 14, 2022.
Developer: The Leapfrog Group
Developer Type: Non-profit employer-sponsored health care quality organization
Location: United States
Synopsis: In its Hospital Safety Score website, the Leapfrog Group assigns scores to nearly 3,000 general acute care hospitals in the United States to indicate how safe they are for patients. This score, which is generated twice annually, represents a hospital’s overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors. It is based on 30 national performance measures from the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the American Hospital Association’s Annual Survey and Health Information Technology Supplement. Publicly available data from CMS, the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, and secondary data sources are weighted and combined to produce a single, consumer-friendly composite score that is presented as an A, B, C, D or F letter grade.
Report Title: Wisconsin CheckPoint
Website: http://www.wicheckpoint.org/Home_main.aspx. Accessed July 14, 2022.
Developer: Wisconsin Hospital Association
Developer Type: Hospital association
Location: Wisconsin
Synopsis: Wisconsin CheckPoint reports on the quality and safety of 127 acute care and specialty hospitals in the state that voluntarily participate in the CheckPoint program. Checkpoint includes clinical quality and safety indicators, as well as patient experience of care measures from the CAHPS Hospital Survey. Hospital performance on these measures is displayed using numeric data in table form. The report shows the hospital’s performance, as well as the national average, state average, state benchmark, and desired direction of scores.
Report Title: Healthcare Quality (multiple topics)
Website: https://hcai.ca.gov/data-and-reports/. Accessed July 14, 2022.
Developer: California Department of Health Care Access and Information
Developer Type: State government
Location: California
Synopsis: The California’s Department of Health Care Access and Information has multiple reports on the quality of the care provided by hospitals in California. The reports include the AHRQ Quality Indicators (Inpatient Quality Indicators, Patient Safety Indicators, Pediatric Quality Indicators, Prevention Quality Indicators) as well as indicators of mortality, inpatient volume, and utilization. Other measures reported on include hospital equity, hospitalizations for severe sepsis, coronary artery bypass surgery outcome data, elective percutaneous coronary intervention, volume of cancer surgeries, mortality following hip fracture repair, and transcatheter aortic valve replacement outcomes. The reports use a variety of data presentation strategies.
Report Title: NYS Health Profiles
Website: http://profiles.health.ny.gov/hospital/index. Accessed July 14, 2022.
Developer: New York State Department of Health
Developer Type: State agency
Location: New York
Synopsis: NYS Health Profiles offer information on how hospitals in New York perform on quality measures, including patient experience, emergency department timeliness, number of procedures and surgeries performed, childbirth practices, complication rates, use of recommended practices, hospital-acquired infection rates, death rates and re-admissions, and inspection and complaint results. Hospital performance measures are displayed using charts, tables, numeric data, symbols, and descriptive information. NYS Health Profiles also report on the quality of care provided by nursing homes, home care agencies, hospices, and physicians in New York.
Report Title: Norton Healthcare Quality Report
Website: https://clinicalquality.nortonhealthcare.org/. Accessed December 20, 2022.
Developer: Norton Healthcare
Developer Type: Health system
Location: Kentucky and Southern Indiana
Synopsis: The Norton Healthcare Quality Report has information on the cost and quality of hospitals that are part of Norton Healthcare in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. Aspects of care covered by the website include cardiovascular, emergency department care, infections, medical imaging, patient safety, and preventive care, among others. Hospital performance measures are displayed using charts, tables, numeric data, symbols, and descriptive information.
