Consumer Reports magazine recently released patient-safety rankings for more than 2,500 hospitals based on a composite score of five quality measures using data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The measures include mortality, admissions, overuse of imaging, healthcare-associated infections and communication.
The 10 top hospitals are:
• Miles Memorial Hospital, Damariscotta, Maine
• Oaklawn Hospital, Marshall, Mich.
• Aurora Medical Center, Oshkosh, Wis.
• Lutheran Hospital, Cleveland
• Palm Drive Hospital, Sebastopol, Calif.
• Marshalltown (Iowa) Medical & Surgical Center
• Hillside Hospital, Pulaski, Tenn.
• Margaret R. Pardee Memorial Hospital, Hendersonville, N.C.
• Spectrum Health United Hospital, Greenville, Mich.
• St. John Medical Center, Westlake, Ohio
The Consumer Reports analysis found mortality rates in top-scoring hospitals are significantly lower than those in low-scoring hospitals.
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