1. Hospital Compare

2. Hospital Compare Website
• Created by Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA),
currently maintained by Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Provides information about quality of care in
acute care, critical access, VA and children’s
hospitals
www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare

3. 30 Day Mortality & Readmission Rates
• Based on Medicare claims from hospitals
• Adjusted for patient characteristics that may
make death or readmission more likely, such
as: age, gender, past medical history, or other
medical conditions
• 36 month collection period
• Includes data for 4791 hospitals

4. Scores
• Hospitals were scored based on how they
compared to the national average on
readmission and mortality rates for heart
attack, heart failure and pneumonia
• Hospitals were given a score from 0 to 2 (for a
total of 12 points) as follows:
– 0: below national average
– 1: same as national average
– 2: above national average

5. Hospital Ownership Categories
• For simplicity, ownership
categories were broken
down as follows:
– Government – local,
federal, state, hospital
district or authority
– Private – physician
– Non-profit – private nonprofit, church, other
– Other – proprietary, tribal

6. Hospital Types
• Hospitals were grouped
by the following types:
– Critical Access
– Acute Care
– Children’s hospitals

7. Emergency Services
• Hospitals were also
grouped based on
whether or not they
provide emergency
services