Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)– Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago). An arm of Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital ranked No. 9 on U.S. News & World Report’s best hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery for 2016-17. Through its relationship with…
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Northwest Community Hospital (Arlington Heights, Ill.)– Northwest Community Hospital (Arlington Heights, Ill.). Through its partnership with Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine, Northwestern Community Hospital provides patients 24/7 access to Northwestern’s neurologists. The 489-bed NCH was listed as one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals…
New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell– NewYork-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell (New York). U.S. News & World Report ranked NewYork-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell as the No. 3 hospital in the nation for neurology and…
Optima Health, a Virginia Beach, Va.-based payer with 450,000 members, received a 4-star quality rating from CMS for its OptimaFit individual and family health plans. The rating is the highest score achieved by a health plan in the state of…
Here are 75 statistics on demographics of patients spending one or more nights at a hospital based on data from across the United States in the CDC report "Summary Health Statistics: National Health Interview Survey, 2014."
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Hospitals in stressed cities — cities with high poverty, unemployment rates, divorce rates and poor health conditions — tend to have lower overall star ratings from CMS than hospitals in less-stressed areas, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine.
CMS released its Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating program in July amidst strong criticism from several stakeholders for a variety of issues. Now, a new Health Affairs blog post says patients will find the ratings "confusing at best and misleading at worst."
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…
Seventeen health insurers earned a 5-star rating in U.S. News & World Report's Best Medicare Advantage Plans 2017.