Consumer Reports ranks hospitals for patient safety

Magazine releases patient-safety rankings for more than 2,500 hospitals based on a composite score of five quality measures


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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April 2, 2014


Topic Area: Safety


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