The Huge Difference the Hospital You Choose Can Make to Your Health Care (& Living or Dying!)

If you must visit a hospital, doing your homework first can, quite literally, mean the difference between life and death. That’s because, according to the Annual HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America Study, conducted by health care ratings group HealthGrades, the quality of care at America’s 5,000-plus hospitals varies drastically.
As is written in the study’s executive summary, “hospitals are in fact not the same,” and neither is the care you’ll receive at a one-star hospital as opposed to a five-star one.

HealthGrades analyzed 40.6 million Medicare hospital records over a three year period in order to evaluate the quality of care at more than 5,000 U.S. hospitals. The team rated hospitals using a five-star system (with five stars being the best, three stars “as expected” and one star “poor”) that was based on patients’ risk of dying or having serious complications from various procedures.

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