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About Us

HealthGrades (Nasdaq:HGRD) is the leading health care ratings organization, providing ratings and profiles of hospitals, nursing homes and physicians to consumers, corporations, health plans and hospitals. Millions of consumers and hundreds of the nation's largest employers, health plans and hospitals rely on HealthGrades independent ratings, consulting and products to make health care decisions based on the quality of care. Founded in 1999, the firm is headquartered in Golden, Colorado, and has over 200 employees.

HealthGrades' health care ratings, information and consumer decision-support resources serve the following groups:

Consumers

Visitors to HealthGrades.com find quality ratings and cost information for the nation's 5,000 hospitals and 16,000 nursing homes as well as in-depth profiles of the nation's 750,000 physicians. As a leader in the consumer revolution in health care, HealthGrades receives more than eight million unique visitors to its consumer websites each month.

Hospitals

HealthGrades helps hospitals understand, improve and communicate the quality of care they deliver through a suite of products and physician-led clinical-advisory services. HealthGrades currently works with hospitals nationwide and produces well-respected public studies of hospital quality in areas that include clinical excellence, and patient safety.

Employers/Health Plans

Many of the nation's largest health plans and employers offer their employees and plan members access to HealthGrades Health Management Suite, a complete set of decision-support tools that include provider ratings, health optimization modules and health care finance tools.

Liability Insurers

HealthGrades helps more than 40 liability insurance companies, including the top three nursing home and hospital insurers, assess providers' quality and risk potential.

Physicians

HealthGrades allows physicians to educate patients about their specialties through HealthGrades consumer website and physician referral and acquisition programs.

Giving Back to the Community

HealthGrades and its employees enjoy sponsoring and volunteering for charitable and fund-raising events. Our participation not only brings the HealthGrades team closer together, it also allows us to support our community. A few of the ways we’ve been able to contribute are:

Donations to the Katrina Relief Fund
Donations for the victims of the Asian tsunami
Medical Supplies for Guatemala
Race for the Cure – Breast Cancer
MS 150 for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
"Miracle on 19th Street"
Rebuilding Together

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