This report
is based on information from
Hospital Compare, a website created through the efforts
of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an
agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
along with the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA). The HQA is a
public-private collaboration established to promote
reporting on hospital quality of care.
Hospital
Compare displays rates for Process of Care measures that
show how often hospitals provide some of the care that is
recommended for patients being treated for a heart attack,
heart failure or pneumonia, or patients having surgery.
Hospitals voluntarily submit data from their medical records
about the treatments their adult patients receive for these
conditions, including patients with Medicare and those who
do not have Medicare.
Information about Hospital Performance
Hospital performance rates tell you the proportion of cases
where a hospital provided the recommended process of care.
Only patients meeting the inclusion criteria for a measure
are included in the calculation of the rate for a measure. A
rate of 88% means that the hospital provided the recommended
process of care 88% of the time. For example, the rates for
initial antibiotic timing tell you the percentage of
patients who received their first dose of antibiotics within
four hours of arrival to the hospital. Higher scores are
better. Hospitals with effective
quality improvement programs are continually working toward
this goal. The information posted on this website comes from
the quality data submitted by hospitals to the QIO Clinical
Data Warehouse for inpatient discharges.
Definitions
Measure
The name of the quality measure.
Condition
The name of the condition of the
corresponding quality measure. Click column header for
a pop-up with additional information.
Number of Patients
The size of the data sample for
the hospital quality measure.
Hospital Footnotes
The numbers of footnotes that
are associated with the hospital's score for the quality
measure. Click column header for a pop-up with
footnote definitions.
Hospital Score
The score that the hospital achieved for the
quality measure. The score is expressed as a
percentage of the sample size that was measured.
National Average
The average score achieved by
all hospitals in the nation for the quality measure.
National
90th Percentile
The score achieved by the Top 10% of all hospitals in
the nation. The Top 10% of hospitals achieved scores
equal to or greater than the score reported.
State
Average
The average score achieved by all hospitals
in the state for the quality measure..
