HealthGrades® is the nation's leading healthcare ratings organization, providing ratings and profiles of hospitals, nursing homes and physicians to consumers, corporations, health plans and hospitals. Millions of consumers and hundreds of the nation's largest employers, health plans and hospitals rely on HealthGrades' independent ratings to make healthcare decisions based on the quality of care.  


 
  HealthGrades rates:  
 
  • 5,000 hospitals nationwide
 
 
  • 700,000 physicians in 143 specialties
 
 
  • 15,000 nursing homes
 
 
  • 6,000 home health agencies
 


 
  HealthGrades has assembled a team of healthcare information and analysis experts to develop the company's objective ratings. This team uses data from the most current three-year data set available from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and several individual states to provide meaningful ratings.