Aug 20, 2008 10:18am
How Good Are the Hospitals Where You Live? Type in Your Zip and Find Out
EmailAs of this morning, you can log on and find out how your local hospital matches up with ones across town or across the country. The data is gathered by the government — death rates from heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia. It empowers patients, but will it have a chilling effect on hospitals? Might hospitals stop taking on riskier patients in order to better their numbers? Click here to check out hospitals in your zip code.
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Where do you type in your zip code?
Posted by: Hipski | August 20, 2008, 10:47 am 10:47 am
Click on the blue text in the story above. That will take you to the USA Today article. Once there, look for On the Web and click on the blue text that says Compare hospitals in your zip code. You can figure it out from there pretty easily.
Posted by: obamamama | August 20, 2008, 10:56 am 10:56 am
Click on the last sentence of the posting — the line that mentions the search by zip code — it will take you right to the page.
Posted by: page | August 20, 2008, 11:22 am 11:22 am
Same problem. Link does not work. Do you not check this link before posting it??? Beaver
Posted by: beaver | August 20, 2008, 7:28 pm 7:28 pm
The number of cases of patients contracting SEPTIS INFECTION in a hospital should definitely be listed. People should really have this info.
Posted by: tammie | August 20, 2008, 7:29 pm 7:29 pm
link did not work again
Posted by: Dave | August 20, 2008, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm
Where do you type in zip?
Posted by: Jan | August 20, 2008, 8:48 pm 8:48 pm
Come on people, just go to the Medicare site and you can get better service and more complete help to compare hospitals. Works for me, I compared by COUNTY instead of zip code. Try it!
Posted by: Ford00 | August 20, 2008, 9:08 pm 9:08 pm
There are at least 7 facilities within 25 miles of my zip and I couldn’t get anything. Does that mean all the patients die or none of them do!
Posted by: karen | August 20, 2008, 9:11 pm 9:11 pm
Hold on people.
The servers are overloaded.
I just got through.
Take it slow and easy.
You’ll get there.
Namaste \/
Posted by: ZenJimbo | August 20, 2008, 9:15 pm 9:15 pm
It took me a little time to find the information. Having worked in a hospital and having had over 30 surgeries, I don’t trust hospitals and some of the people who work in them.
Posted by: Fran | August 20, 2008, 9:58 pm 9:58 pm
There are no hospitals in the entire state of New Mexico? I guess I can’t get sick now…
That site is worthless.
Posted by: Xcvb | August 21, 2008, 12:20 am 12:20 am
OMG, people are so stupid!! If you can’t work a computer correctly, don’t respond on blogs!!! Everyone on this site needs computers for dummies! It took me seriously 2 minutes to retrieve the information that I wanted.
Posted by: Theresa | August 21, 2008, 1:44 am 1:44 am
This actually doesn’t mean a thing to me.I have heard from hear say where the best hospitals are from where i live.I think that they have a higer number of patients because more people prefer to go to the best one,so naturally their going to have more cases.It really didn’t tell me anything except how many medicare patients they had in non critical,and critical conditions.Your best option is to ask around if you want to know where the best hospitals and staff are,that’s just my opinion.
Posted by: Dontmeanathing | August 21, 2008, 2:48 am 2:48 am
Can anyone tell me how to find the mortality rate on this?It doesn’t seem to say or answer the care measures.I’m not finding much information really.
Posted by: Dontmeanathing | August 21, 2008, 3:21 am 3:21 am
Just tried to search and it gives an error message. Just like a government website.
Posted by: eyeore | August 21, 2008, 5:59 am 5:59 am
I’m with Theresa, you all complain that the site doesn’t work but if you’d spend a few moments following the lead and go to the Medicare site you’d find what you are looking for.
Posted by: Ford00 | August 21, 2008, 11:22 pm 11:22 pm