"Readmission" is when patients who have had a recent stay in the hospital go back into a hospital again. The information on this website shows how often patients are readmitted within 30 days of discharge from a previous hospital stay for heart attack, heart failure, or pneumonia. Patients may have been readmitted back to the same hospital or to a different hospital or acute care facility. They may have been readmitted for the same condition as their recent hospital stay, or for a different reason.
This website shows how different hospitals’ rates of readmission for heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia patients compared to the U.S. National Rate. You can see whether the 30-day
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rate of readmission for a hospital is lower (better) than the national rate, no different than the national rate, or higher (worse) than the national rate, given how sick patients were when they were admitted to the hospital. 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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