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Hospital Compare
URL: http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov

Description:
"This tool provides you with information on how well the hospitals in your area care for all their adult patients with certain medical conditions." Specific United States hospitals are compared with national averages in their treatment of the three medical conditions of heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia. Hospitals are searchable by name or by location. From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Publisher:
United States Department of Health and Human Services

Extra Keywords
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS AMI acute myocardial infarction

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Hospital care
Hospitals
Hospitals -- United States -- Evaluation

LII Database Information:
Record 13140 created by June Pilsitz on 04/02/2005
Last modification on 03/25/2007
Published: 04/02/2005  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/13140