Rankings and Ratings

Most available hospital quality rankings — from Leapfrog, CMS, Healthgrades and others — offer an overall score, meant to represent the quality of care provided overall to all patients at a hospital. However, according to a FairChex whitepaper, those rankings…

Patients have been inundated with a flood of different hospital quality measures in recent years, including Leapfrog's Hospital Safety Grade, U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals rankings and CMS' Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings. But confusion can set in as…

On Thursday, Mount Sinai Health System became the largest academic health system in New York City to post patient experience ratings for its physicians online.

Consumer Reports released new ratings on U.S. hospitals' efforts to prevent Clostridium difficile. It found that around one-third of the more than 3,100 hospitals evaluated received a low rating for C. diff infection control — meaning their C. diff infection rates were worse than the national benchmark.

Here are the safety scores for the top 20 hospitals in cardiology, according to the U.S. News & World Report rankings.

U.S. News & World Report has released its 2016-17 Best Hospitals rankings, and Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic came out on top, ousting Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital as the No. 1 hospital in the nation.