The Commonwealth Fund has launched a new web site, WhyNotTheBest.org, which allows healthcare providers to conduct side-by-side comparisons of 4,500 hospitals nationwide, track performance over time against numerous benchmarks, and download tools to improve healthcare quality. The web site is a free resource which provides data on hospital performance across two dozen measures of recommended care, and links users to improvement resources directly related to those measures, connecting them to hands-on tools they can put into practice.
The web site also lets users search for and compare hospitals with similar characteristics, such as region, ownership, size, and type (such as safety net, teaching hospital). Benchmark comparisons show how a hospital measures up against others in the same state, the top 10 percent, or the national average.
Populated with publicly-reported data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Commonwealth Fund site shows how hospitals fared on 24 nationally recognized measures of care, including those evaluated in The Commonwealth Fund's National Scorecard report. Rankings across 10 measures of patient satisfaction are also reported, pulled from data in the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, a survey of patients' experience in U.S. hospitals.
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