The following is a list of hospitals with the highest proportion of patients who reported they were given information about how to care for themselves after hospital discharge. Data is taken from CMS' Hospital Compare. Hospitals with insufficient patient survey data were excluded from the data sorting process. For reference, the national average rate of discharge information provision is 85 percent, according to Hospital Compare.
Hospitals with the highest percentage of patients who said they were given information about what to do during their recovery at home:
Westlake Regional Hospital (Columbia, Ky.) — 100 percent
United Regional Medical Center (Manchester, Tenn.) — 97 percent
Sacred Heart Hospital on the Gulf (Port Saint Joe, Fla.) — 96 percent
Mount Desert Island Hospital (Bar Harbor, Maine) — 96 percent
Lincoln (Neb.) Surgical Hospital — 95 percent
Flambeau Hospital (Park Falls, Wis.) — 95 percent
Summit Surgical (Hutchinson, Kan.) — 94 percent
New England Baptist Hospital (Boston) — 94 percent
Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital (Omaha) — 94 percent
Institute for Orthopaedic Surgery (Lima, Ohio) — 94 percent
Surgical Institute of Reading (Wyomissing, Pa.) — 94 percent
Advanced Surgical Hospital (Washington, Pa.) — 94 percent
Village Hospital (Greer, S.C.) — 94 percent
Bear River Valley Hospital (Tremonton, Utah) — 94 percent
Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin (Glendale) — 94 percent
Oak Leaf Surgical Hospital (Eau Claire, Wis.) — 94 percent
Community Hospital (Torrington, Wyo.) — 94 percent
Patients' Hospital of Redding (Calif.) — 93 percent
Richland Memorial Hospital (Olney, Ill.) — 93 percent
Alegent Health Community Memorial Hospital (Missouri Valley, Iowa) — 93 percent
Montgomery County Memorial Hospital (Red Oak, Iowa) — 93 percent
Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute (Leawood, Kan.) — 93 percent
Manhattan (Kansas) Surgical Hospital — 93 percent
Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center (Chanute, Kan.) — 93 percent
Stephens Memorial Hospital (Norway, Maine) — 93 percent
MidMichigan Medical Center-Gladwin (Mich.) — 93 percent
Allegan (Mich.) General Hospital — 93 percent
Essentia Health St. Joseph's Medical Center (Brainerd, Minn.) — 93 percent
Riverview Hospital (Crookston, Minn.) — 93 percent
Mille Lacs Health System (Onamia, Minn.) — 93 percent
St. Francis Memorial Hospital (West Point, Neb.) — 93 percent
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital (Dover, N.H.) — 93 percent
The Memorial Hospital (North Conway, N.H.) — 93 percent
Surgical Hospital at Southwoods (Youngstown, Ohio) — 93 percent
Trinity Hospital Twin City (Dennison, Ohio) — 93 percent
University Hospitals Conneaut (Ohio) Medical Center — 93 percent
Defiance (Ohio) Regional Medical Center — 93 percent
Oss Orthopaedic Hospital (York, Pa.) — 93 percent
Orem (Utah) Community Hospital — 93 percent
Sanpete Valley Hospital (Mount Pleasant, Utah) — 93 percent
Heber Valley Medical Center(Heber City, Utah) — 93 percent
Midwest Orthopedic Specialty Hospital (Franklin, Wis.) — 93 percent
Mayo Clinic Health System-Northland (Barron, Wis.) — 93 percent
Ladd Memorial Hospital (Osceola, Wis.) — 93 percent
Black River Memorial Hospital (Black River Falls, Wis.) — 93 percent
Platte County Memorial Hospital (Wheatland, Wyo.) — 93 percent
Heritage Park Surgical Hospital (Sherman, Texas) — 93 percent