CMS recently released its latest Hospital Quality Star Ratings for the U.S. | Courtesy of Morguefile
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Amanda Rupp | Jul 26, 2016

CMS releases most recent Star Ratings for U.S. hospitals

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a review of the national distributions of the United States' Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings, using patients’ experience and feedback for the rating system.

Hospital Compare, a consumer-oriented website, offers readers information about the ability of hospitals to give care to patients. This will help patients and consumers to have more information when they make choices concerning health care.

Since April 2015, the CMS has published quarterly Star Ratings on Hospital Compare. Now, the CMS has published an Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating to show the quality information in a comprehensive setting.

Using a transparent public process, the Star Rating has 62 current quality measures that are already included in Hospital Compare. The review combines these figures into a single rating between one and five stars.

Star Rating features measures for routine care that is part of treatments for pneumonia and heart attacks. There is also information about catheter-associated urinary tract infections and other infections developed at hospitals.

Survey questions ask about infections after surgeries, the length of time patients need to wait in the emergency department, the number of MRIs or CT scans patients receive, the likelihood of readmission into the hospital after experiencing a heart attack and potential complications after having hip replacement surgery.

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