Agency Releases List Of 50 Best U.S. Hospitals
02.25.09 |
It is safer to get very, very sick in Ohio and Florida, at least judging by its hospital care. Those two states had more hospitals ranked in the Top 50 by an independent rating agency.
HealthGrades.com combed 110 million Medicare records from 1999 to 2007. Researchers looked at how many patients died or suffered complications from common medical procedures.
The winning hospitals had to first make an initial cut and get on HealthGrades' distinguished list of the top five-percent of all hospitals. Then it picked only those that made the grade at least six out of seven years.
Many states, including New York, failed to get even a single hospital listed. Florida topped the list with nine, followed by Ohio with eight and Pennsylvania with seven. HealthGrades estimates that if all hospitals held themselves to the same standards as its distinguished list, more than 150-thousand deaths could've been prevented during the study period.
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