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Medicare Data, Private Research on Hospital Quality

While the data we are pointing you to here is all on Medicare patients (older, sicker??) the resource and findings are worth noting.   HealthGrades conducted a study using CMS data for more than 40Million hospital records covering 27 medical diagnoses and/or procedure types at all of the nonfederal hospitals from 2008 through 2010.  The findings demonstrated that there is wide variance in quality (outcomes) between hospitals and that those variations (if results were standardized to the highest performing hospitals) could save the lives of 240,000 Medicare patients during the 3-year period reviewed.  Amazing!   If you want to find out which hospitals HealthGrades rated 5-star in your area, click here.