Select the Patient Safety Measures tab during your hospital search to get information on Healthcare Associated Infections from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s
National Healthcare Safety Network.
Medicare now has new measures for heart attack care and surgical care.
Beginning October 2012, Hospital Compare will include new surgical outcomes measures submitted on voluntary basis by hospitals participating in the American College of Surgeon’s National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database (ACS NSQIP®). Click here for more information.
Visit
Medicare’s Hospital Value Based Purchasing Program
page and learn more about future measures.