The majority of hospital leaders indicated the measures reported on Hospital Compare influence quality improvement efforts, but they also reported concerns over the clinical meaningfulness and ...

CMS launched its Hospital Compare website to make public data more transparent and help patients “find hospitals and compare the quality of their care.” However, the way the website shows the data ...

CMS has introduced star ratings based on patient experiences on Hospital Compare to make it easier for consumers to choose a hospital and understand the quality of care they deliver. CMS has ...

Medicare’s seven-year public reporting initiative for hospitals, Hospital Compare, had no impact on reducing death rates for two key health conditions and just a modest effect on a third. That’s the ...

The Trump administration has folded eight of its existing healthcare comparison tools into a single website with the intention, they said, of becoming more user friendly. The Centers for Medicare & ...

Both Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles and Sequim and Jefferson Healthcare in Port Townsend received five stars from Hospital Compare, a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services online guide.

The federal government's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its annual quality rankings of hospitals and awarded University of Utah Hospital four stars, the highest ranking in ...

Medicare has begun publishing patient safety ratings for thousands of hospitals as the first step toward paying less to institutions with high rates of surgical complications, infections, mishaps and ...