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.