One way to tell whether a hospital is doing a good job is to find out whether patients admitted to the hospital have death (mortality) rates that are lower (better) than the U.S. National Rate, about the same as the U.S. National Rate, or higher (worse) than the U.S. National Rate, given how sick they were when they were admitted to the hospital. The information on this website shows how the 30-day
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death rates for heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia at different hospitals compared to the U.S. National Rate. For some hospitals, the number of cases is too small (fewer than 25) to reliably tell how well the hospital is performing, so no comparison to the national rate is shown.
To see technical information about how the rates of readmission shown on this website are defined and calculated, see
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