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Healthgrades evaluates hospitals solely on risk-adjusted mortality and in-hospital complications. [17] Its website evaluates roughly 500 million claims from federal and private reviews and data to rate and rank doctors based on complication rates at the hospitals where they practice, experience, and patient satisfaction. [8]
A 2012 study compared the U.S. News rankings with hospital rankings at Consumer Reports. [6] That study said that the two systems ranked hospitals differently, with 8% of graded hospitals having a similar position in each other's rankings.
The company also publishes the Consumers’ Guide to Top Doctors, providing a list of recommended specialists in the 53 largest metro areas of the U.S. as well as the Consumers' Guide to Hospitals, providing ratings for about 4,500 U.S. acute-care hospitals, which it first published in 1988. The Guide to Top Doctors was first published in 1999.
Consumer Reports was a sponsor of the Safe Patient Project, [12] whose goal was to help consumers find the best quality of health care by promoting the public disclosure of hospital-acquired infection rates and medical errors.
Outpatient department of a hospital provides diagnosis and care for patients that do not need to stay overnight. [1] The departments are also sometimes called outpatient clinics, but are distinct from clinics independent of hospitals, almost all of which are designed mostly or exclusively for outpatient care and may be also be called outpatient clinics.
In the U.S., the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act requires that hospitals treat all patients in need of emergency medical care without considering patients' ability to pay for service. [27] This government mandated care places a cost burden on medical providers, as critically ill patients lacking financial resources must be treated.
Ambulatory surgery centers, also known as outpatient surgery centers, same day surgery centers, or surgicenters, are health care facilities where surgical procedures not requiring an overnight hospital stay are performed. Such surgery is commonly less complicated than that requiring hospitalization.
Detroit General Hospital (privatized, now Detroit Receiving Hospital) [5] Greenville General Hospital (of the Greenville Health Authority), owned by the city of Greenville, SC. [ 6 ] It continues to own the hospital facility but leases management to Prisma Health , [ 7 ] which operates it as Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital .