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Choosing a Good Hospital

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Use our hospital Ratings to find a good hospital in your area. Even if you don't have a choice in hospitals, our Ratings can help you identify and be prepared for any potential problems at the hospital you do go to.

We rate hospitals using two major measures:

• Patient experience: Based on a government survey of millions of patients, these Ratings tell you whether patients would recommend the hospital, their overall assessment of it, and their experience with topics such as communication with doctors and nurses, pain control, and whether their rooms were kept clean and quiet. Read more.


• Patient outcomes: These Ratings, based on data submitted by hospitals to the federal government, states or the nonprofit Leapfrog group, provide information on how well hospitals prevent bloodstream and surgical-site infections, and the chance that patients have to be readmitted to a hospital within 30 days of their initial discharge. The need for such readmission can indicate problems in care while the patient was first hospitalized, including a hospital-acquired infection. Read more.