Thursday, April 14, 2016

Here’s why you can’t believe “top hospitals” lists

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At the end of 2015, The Leapfrog Group announced its annual list of America’s top hospitals for quality and safety; 98 hospitals receiving the honor.

Unlike some other hospital rating schemes, Leapfrog’s does not factor in reputation. You won’t find any of the usual suspects on Leapfrog’s list. Instead, Leapfrog uses surveys of hospitals and publicly available quality and safety data.

Leapfrog’s top 98 included 62 urban, 24 rural, and 12 children’s hospitals. Of the 86 urban and rural hospitals, only three were university hospitals: University of California Davis Medical Center, University of California Irvine Medical Center, and University of Tennessee Medical Center.

New York managed to place only one hospital on the Leapfrog list.

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