Report Finds Improved Performance by Hospitals

“It’s only highlighting the best performers and they should be highlighting the poorest performers because evidence shows that when you publicly report, it’s the poorest performers that improve the most. And the public wants to know which are the poorest performing hospitals so they can avoid them.”
-- Lisa McGiffert, Director of Consumer Union’s Safe Patient Project

In the latest advance for health care accountability, the country’s leading hospital accreditation board, the Joint Commission, released a list on Tuesday of 405 medical centers that have been the most diligent in following protocols to treat conditions like heart attack and pneumonia. Almost without exception, most highly regarded hospitals in the United States, from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., did not make the list. Read the full article...