Fifty-one hospitals made the list of quietest facilities for which 83 percent or more of patients reported that the area around their room was "always" quiet at night on their HCAHPS survey, according to an article on the Becker's Infection Control and Clinical Quality website.
The data tracks surveys from April 2015 through March 2016.
The top six hospitals on the list are:
• The Physicians Centre Hospital (Bryan, Texas) — 95 percent
• Park Place Surgical Hospital (Lafayette, La.) — 93 percent
• Patients' Hospital of Redding (Calif.) — 91 percent
• Iowa Specialty Hospital-Belmond — 91 percent
• GHS Patewood Memorial Hospital (Greenville, S.C.) — 91 percent
• Black Hills Surgical Hospital (Rapid City, S.D.) — 91 percent
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