Healthgrades evaluates hospital quality for conditions and procedures based solely on clinical outcomes to help consumers understand, compare and evaluate hospital performance.
Healthgrades America’s Best Hospitals™ consistently exhibit exceptional, comprehensive quality care. This premier distinction is based solely on clinical quality outcomes for 32 conditions and procedures. Simply put, patients are more likely to have a successful treatment without major complications—and have a lower chance of dying—at America’s Best Hospitals.
Healthgrades recognizes hospitals that deliver superior patient outcomes within 16 service lines. These hospitals are recipients of Healthgrades Specialty Excellence Awards™.
Within these recipient lists, we further distinguish the nation’s top hospitals for specialty care. In 11 service lines, we highlight hospitals that stand out as America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Specialty Care™. For Cardiac Surgery and Vascular Surgery, we spotlight recipients among America’s 50 Best Hospitals for Specialty Care™.
The Patient Safety Excellence Award™ recognizes hospitals that have the lowest occurrences of 14 preventable patient safety events, including injuries, infections, and other serious conditions. These hospitals are in the top 10% in the nation for patient safety.
Healthgrades evaluates patient experience performance based on 10 patient experience measures, using data collected from surveys of the hospital’s own patients. Hospitals in the top 15% with the highest overall patient experience scores are recognized as Outstanding Patient Experience Award™ recipients.
Each year, Healthgrades analyzes the quality of care of women during and after childbirth, and for the most common gynecologic procedures at U.S. hospitals. Women who deliver or have gynecologic procedures at recognized hospitals have a lower risk of experiencing a complication during their hospital stay.
Healthgrades evaluates hospital quality for conditions and procedures based solely on clinical outcomes to help consumers understand, compare and evaluate hospital performance. Unlike other hospital quality analyses, Healthgrades evaluates hospital quality for conditions and procedures based solely on clinical outcomes. We measure hospital performance for the most common in-hospital procedures and conditions and adjust for each patient’s risk factors, such as age, gender and medical condition. Our analysis is based on more than 45 million Medicare medical claims records and other select data for the most recent three-year time period available from nearly 4,500 hospitals nationwide.