Which Hospital You’re More Likely to Die At
I’m a huge fan of performance based compensation. This Compare Hospital tool from the Department of Health and Human services should help empower health care patients to avoid poor health care treatment, and what to expect in terms of both treatment and cost.
The Hospital Compare tool lets you compare 1) how well your local hospitals care for their adult patients, 2) the RESULT of care or treatment – whether they lived or died within 30 days of treatment, 3) what patients are saying about their recent hospital stay, and 4) how much Medicare hospitals paid on average for certain conditions or procedures.
You should really check out your local hospitals, but return and let me know if you were surprised at the results of your local hospitals, like I was? Have you shared this with your friends and family, because it could save their lives – literally.
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