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Health Grades DHAPatient Safety Methodology Page 3

"...that are coded into the billing data. Therefore, if a particular risk factor was not coded into the billing data (such as a patient's socioeconomic status and health behavior) then it was not accounted for with these models. · Although HealthGrades has taken steps to carefully compile these data, no techniques are infallible; and therefore, some information may be missing, outdated or incorrect. Please note that if more than one hospital reported to CMS under a single provider ID, healthgrades analyzed patient safety data for those hospitals as a single unit. Throughout this document, therefore, "hospital" refers to one hospital or a group of hospitals reporting under a single provider ID...."

Health Grades Hospital Quality Guide Methodology 20072008 Page 11

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"...therefore some information may be missing, outdated, or incorrect. Please note that a high ranking for a particular hospital is not a recommendation or endorsement of a particular hospital by Health Grades, Inc. It means that the data associated with that hospital has met the foregoing qualifications. Only the individual patient can decide whether a particular hospital is suited for his or her unique needs. Also note that if more than one hospital reported under a single provider ID, healthgrades analyzed patient outcome data for those hospitals as a single unit. Throughout this document, therefore, "hospital" refers to one hospital or a group of hospitals reporting under a single provider ID...."

Health Grades Hospital Quality Guide Methodology 20072008 Page 1

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"...RI, TX, UT, VA, WA, and WI) for years 2003 through 2005. HealthGrades provides a choice to view hospital information using either Medicare inpatient data or inpatient state data. This choice is not available when: · The medical issue is appendectomy, maternity care, women's health, bariatric surgery, or general quality information. · The search area is located in a state that does not provide inpatient data (all patients). Service Area Ratings To help consumers evaluate and compare hospital performance, healthgrades analyzed patient outcome data for virtually every hospital in the country. HealthGrades analyzed and assigned quality ratings to different service areas. The rating of each service area is a combined rating of one or more medical issues (e.g., heart attack). The following descriptions show how HealthGrades calculated each of the following service area ratings...."

Health Grades Hospital Report Card Maternity Womens Health 20072008 Page 1

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"...© Copyright 2007 Health Grades, Inc. All rights reserved. May not be reprinted or reproduced without permission from Health Grades, Inc. Hospital Report CardsTM Maternity Care and Women's Health 2007-2008 Methodology White Paper (2003 2005 Data) Introduction To help consumers evaluate and compare hospital performance in maternity care and women's health, healthgrades analyzed patient outcome data for virtually every hospital in 19 states. The state data contained inpatient records for all patients. The HealthGrades ratings are available on the Internet at www.healthgrades.com . Data Acquisition HealthGrades purchased the initial patient-level data from each individual state. The data represent three years of discharges. These data were chosen because they represent all discharges for the associated states. The 19 states evaluated were as follows: · Arizona · North Carolina · California · Pennsylvania · Florida..."

Health Grades Hospital Report Card Maternity Womens Health 20072008 Page 7

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"...infallible, and therefore some information may be missing, outdated, or incorrect. Please note that a high ranking for a particular hospital is not a recommendation or endorsement by Health Grades, Inc. of a particular hospital; it means that the data associated with a particular hospital has met the foregoing qualifications. Only individual patients can decide whether a particular hospital is suited for their unique needs. Also note that if more than one hospital reported under a single provider ID, healthgrades analyzed patient outcome data for those hospitals as a single unit. Throughout this document, therefore, "hospital" refers to one hospital or a group of hospitals reporting under a single provider ID...."

Health Grades Hospital Report Cards Bariatric Surgery 20072008 Page 1

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"...2005 Data) Introduction Morbid obesity is recognized as a major public health problem in America that contributes to serious health risks. Bariatric surgery has been demonstrated to be a highly effective therapy to reduce the consequences of the serious health risks from morbid obesity, such as severe sleep apnea, heart disease and diabetes. 1 As a result, bariatric surgery has proliferated across the United States in recent years. To help consumers evaluate and compare hospital performance in bariatric surgery, healthgrades analyzed patient outcome data for all patients (all-payer data) provided by 19 individual states for years 2003 through 2005. Ratings were based on HealthGrades' risk-adjusted methodology and the HealthGrades ratings are available on the Internet at www.healthgrades.com . The purpose of risk adjustment is to obtain fair statistical comparisons between disparate populations or groups. Significant differences in demographic and clinical risk factors are found among patients treated in different hospitals. Risk adjustment of the data is needed to make accurate and..."

Health Grades Hospital Report Cards Bariatric Surgery 20072008 Page 4

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"...therefore some information may be missing, outdated or incorrect. Please note that a high ranking for a particular hospital is not a recommendation or endorsement by Health Grades, Inc. of a particular hospital; it means that the data associated with a particular hospital has met the foregoing qualifications. Only individual patients can decide whether a particular hospital is suited for their unique needs. Also note that if more than one hospital reported to CMS under a single provider ID, healthgrades analyzed patient outcome data for those hospitals as a single unit. Throughout this document, therefore, "hospital" refers to one hospital or a group of hospitals reporting under a single provider ID. References 1 Buchwald, H. et al., Bariatric Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. JAMA. 2004; 92: 17241737. 2 Santry HP, Gillen DL, Lauderdale DS. Trends in bariatric surgical procedures.JAMA.2005;294:1909-1917. 3 Nguyen NT, Paya M, Stevens CM, et al. The relationship between hospital volume and outcome in Bariatric surgery at academic..."

Health Grades Patient Safety Methodology 2007 Page 1

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"...© Copyright 2007 Health Grades, Inc. All rights reserved. May not be reprinted or reproduced without permission from Health Grades, Inc. Patient Safety Methodology 2007 (20032005 MedPAR Data) Introduction To help consumers evaluate and compare hospital patient safety performance, healthgrades analyzed patient data for virtually every hospital in the country to determine patient safety outcomes. HealthGrades used Medicare inpatient data from the MedPAR database (purchased from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; 2003 through 2005 data) and Patient Safety Indicator software (QI Windows Software, Version 3.0a) from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to analyze the following 13 patient safety indicators (PSI). Major changes to the indicators in the most recent version of software are outlined in Appendix..."

Health Grades Hospital Quality Guide Methodology 2006 Jan 04 Page 13

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Health Grades Hospital Quality Guide Methodology 2006 Jan 04 Page 2

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"...Hospital Quality Guide Methodology 2006 2 © Copyright 2006 Health Grades, Inc. All rights reserved. May not be reprinted or reproduced without permission from Health Grades, Inc. Service Area Ratings To help consumers evaluate and compare hospital performance, healthgrades analyzed patient outcome data for virtually every hospital in the country. HealthGrades analyzed and assigned quality ratings to different service areas. The rating of each service area is a combined rating of one or more medical issues (e.g., heart attack). The following descriptions show how HealthGrades calculated each of the following service area ratings. Service Area Ratings · Cardiac · Critical Care · Gastrointestinal · General Surgery · Orthopedic · Pulmonary · Stroke · Vascular Cardiac The Cardiac service area rating..."

Health Grades Hospital Report Card Maternity Womens Health 2005 Page 1

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"...© Copyright 2005 Health Grades, Inc. All rights reserved. May not be reprinted or reproduced without permission from Health Grades, Inc. Hospital Report CardsTM Maternity Care and Women's Health 2005 Methodology White Paper (2001 2003 Data) Introduction To help consumers evaluate and compare hospital performance in Maternity Care and Women's Health, healthgrades analyzed patient outcome data for virtually every hospital in 17 states. The state data contained inpatient records for all patients. The HealthGrades ratings are available on the Internet at www.healthgrades.com . Data Acquisition HealthGrades purchased the initial patient-level data from each individual state. The data represent three years of discharges. These data were chosen because they represent all discharges for the associated states. The 17 states were as follows: · Arizona · New York · California · North Carolina · Florida..."

Health Grades Hospital Report Card Maternity Womens Health 2005 Page 7

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Health Grades Hospital Report Card Maternity Womens Health 20062007 Page 1

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"...© Copyright 2006 Health Grades, Inc. All rights reserved. May not be reprinted or reproduced without permission from Health Grades, Inc. Hospital Report CardsTM Maternity Care and Women's Health 2006-2007 Methodology White Paper (2002 2004 Data) Introduction To help consumers evaluate and compare hospital performance in maternity care and women's health, healthgrades analyzed patient outcome data for virtually every hospital in 17 states. The state data contained inpatient records for all patients. The HealthGrades ratings are available on the Internet at www.healthgrades.com . Data Acquisition HealthGrades purchased the initial patient-level data from each individual state. The data represent three years of discharges. These data were chosen because they represent all discharges for the associated states. The 17 states were as follows: · Arizona · New York · California · North Carolina · Florida..."

Health Grades Hospital Report Card Maternity Womens Health 20062007 Page 7

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Health Grades Hospital Report Cards Mortality Complications 2007 Page 1

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"...© Copyright 2007 Health Grades, Inc. All rights reserved. May not be reprinted or reproduced without permission from Health Grades, Inc. Hospital Report CardTM Mortality and Complication Based Outcomes 2007 Methodology White Paper Introduction To help consumers evaluate and compare hospital performance, healthgrades analyzed patient outcome data for virtually every hospital in the country. Health Grades, Inc. uses the following data sources: · Medicare inpatient data from the MedPAR database (purchased from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services). Medicare data is available for years 2003 through 2005. · Inpatient data for appendectomy provided by 17 states (AZ, CA, FL, IA, MA, MD, ME, NC, NJ, NV, NY, PA, TX, UT, VA, WA, and WI) for years 2002 through 2004. Ratings were based upon..."

Health Grades Hospital Report Cards Mortality Complications 2007 Page 5

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Health Grades Patient Safety Methodology 2005 Page 1

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"...© Copyright 2005 Health Grades, Inc. All rights reserved. May not be reprinted or reproduced without permission from Health Grades, Inc. Patient Safety Methodology 2005 (2001 2003 Medicare Data) Introduction To help consumers evaluate and compare hospital performance, healthgrades analyzed patient data for virtually every hospital in the country to determine patient safety outcomes. HealthGrades used Medicare inpatient data from the MedPAR database (purchased from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; 2001 2003 data) and Patient Safety Indicator software (Version 2.1, Revision 3a) from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to analyze the following 13 patient safety indicators (PSI): · Prevention of death in procedures where mortality is usually very low · Lack of pressure sores..."

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