Not all hospitals are alike.

Not all hospitals are alike.

Find out how to make the best choice for you and your family.

Just like good doctors, great hospitals invest in their patients. Positive outcomes depend on carefully-coordinated care, communication, and policies designed to protect patients from harm. Not all hospitals are alike. Choosing the right hospital can be even more important than picking the right doctor. 

Which hospital would you choose?

When there is a standard for comparing hospitals on  safety, quality, and efficiency, the public can collect and report hospital performance, empowering patients to find the highest-value care and giving consumers the lifesaving information they need to make informed decisions. 

Using the Survey results, you can find out if your hospital has a high C-section rate, if there are enough qualified nurses, if it waives costs associated with Never Events, and much more.

Making the choice on safety.

We can create the Hospital Safety Standard so you can see how well your hospital protects its patients from errors, accidents, injuries and infections. Using the simple letter grade system, you can find out:

  • How well does my hospital prevent infections and encourage hand washing?
  • Does my hospital value patient safety by supporting strong health care teams?
  • Are there policies in place for preventing errors?

Without Transparency

Imagine if you didn’t have access to this information. Until recently, people lacked the tools they needed to make these important decisions. We believe that patients have a right to transparent information on hospital care—good and bad

Resources and Tools

Choosing the best hospital is just the first step. We know patients are also concerned about the cost of specific procedures, picking the best doctor or surgeon, and deciding what kinds of tests and treatments are right for them. Luckily, there are many organizations that help you make those choices too.

Quality Comes at a Cost

Remember all the information available free of cost may not be reliable. There are no free lunches in this world. The most important question is to ask why this information is freely available to you.When Gadgets and apps recommending a particular hospital or doctor free of cost, the question you need to ask is, who is funding them. The fact is, if its free, in all possibilities, its funded by the hospitals and doctors available on their portal. Then the authenticity and reliability of such information is questionable. Quality comes at a cost and should be transparent and reliable. 

Quality Grading of the Hospitals should be demanded by the public, should be transparent and if possible should have a open pay for required reliable reporting is the best way of Authentic reporting. 

DR ASHISH SATPATHY

SENIOR CONSULTANT NEONATOLOGIST(MD, DM,MBA,CPHM,CHQ,CPIC)

7 年

Doctors point of view As a doctor what I can say - no hospital is perfect and when doctor decide to join a particular hosp what he look for is how good is his dept ? How good is the set up ? Giving example as being a neonatologist I will l will look for Whether they have NICU ? What level of NICU ? What is the delivery rate ? Delivered baby profile like numb of preterm baby deliver ? What are the equipment provided to take care of preterm baby. What is management expectation from me base on salary offer to me . So in any hosp few dept are good and they keep other dept just to complete the name as multi-speciality hospital

Dr Ruchi Saxena

Founder, Caerobotics | Global Alliance on Drones in Development | Global Alliance on Health Research and Innovation | University of Oxford | Chevening Scholar | Certified Independent Director | LSSBB | ISO | NABH

7 年

Garima, which country are you writing about? India? Quality Grading of Hospitals? Is it available?

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