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Compare and Select
the Best
Hospital Quality Guide
TM
Over 5,000 Hospitals Rated
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Compare local hospitals by
quality for dozens of procedures
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Easy-to-understand star ratings
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Consumer-friendly navigation and
terminology
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Patient safety measures from The
Leapfrog Group
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AHRQ patient safety indicators
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Cost, volume, and length-of-stay
data
Physician Quality Guide
TM
Over 620,000 Physicians Profiled
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Board certification (ABMS or AOA
sourced)
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State medical board and Medicare
sanctions
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Education and training
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Foreign languages and gender
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Ratings of affiliated hospitals
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Patient-satisfaction results
Nursing Home Quality Guide
TM
Over 15,000 Nursing Homes Rated
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Details of the four most recent
licensing surveys
Complaint investigations
Repeat violations
Overall star ratings compared to
State averages for violations and
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Licensing survey deficiencies
Complaint investigations
Repeat violations
Overall star ratings
Health Grades, Inc.
1-800-938-0148
www.healthgrades.com
Quality Ratings Suite
TM
Control healthcare costs while improving the
quality of care your beneficiaries receive.
HealthGrades' Quality Ratings Suite
TM
is a series of interactive quality guides
designed to help healthcare consumers evaluate and find high-quality care for
hospitals, physicians, nursing homes, and home health agencies.
Responding to Healthcare Cost Increases
Over 53% of the nation's healthcare dollars are being spent on hospital and
physician services. Avoiding poor care can save thousands per employee. That's
why we developed the Quality Ratings Suite, so your employees and members
can quickly access a wealth of information to make wiser healthcare choices.
Quality Ratings You Can Trust
HealthGrades' quality ratings have been used by 75+ million consumers to stay
healthier by connecting to high-quality hospitals, doctors, nursing homes and home
health agencies. More consumers trust our data than all of our competitors
combined.
In fact, more than 50 Fortune 500, 125 major employers, and more than a dozen
major health plans across the U.S. use our Quality Ratings Suite. What's morewe
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