For 10 years running, HealthGrades has been revealing a list of the hospitals performing in the top 5% nationwide across 26 different medical procedures and diagnoses.
A description of how the process works is as follows:
"As part of this study, HealthGrades evaluates each of the nation’s 5,000 nonfederal hospitals in 26 procedures and diagnoses, allowing individuals to compare their local hospitals online at www.healthgrades.com. HealthGrades hospital quality distinctions are independently created; no hospital can opt-in or opt-out of being evaluated, and no hospital pays to be evaluated. Mortality and complication rates are risk adjusted, which takes into account differing levels of severity of patient illness at different hospitals and allows for hospitals to be compared equally."
So how did you city stack up this year? Click read more to find out!
Gloria Durham commented on 31-Jan-2012 05:50 PM 
