New Data Available on WhyNotTheBest.org

WhyNotTheBest.org has been updated with the most recently available data for the following:

• CMS process-of-care "core" measures; 
• Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) measures of patient experience; 
• mortality rates for heart failure, heart attack, and pneumonia; 
• readmission rates for heart failure, heart attack, and pneumonia; and 
• average reimbursement for treatment of these three conditions. 

Users of WhyNotTheBest.org can conduct side-by-side comparisons of more than 5,200 hospitals nationwide, track performance over time against numerous benchmarks, and learn from case studies of top performers. You also can compare performance on the county level by accessing the interactive map.