The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in late July unveiled an updated Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings system that summarizes 64 quality measures into a unified rating of one to five stars. Holland Hospital is one of only 102 hospitals to achieve a 5-star rating from a pool of approximately 4,600 hospitals reviewed nationwide.
"When individuals and their families need to make important decisions about healthcare, they seek a reliable way to understand the best choice for themselves or their loved ones," said CMS Center for Clinical Standards and Quality Director Kate Goodrich, MD. “We are updating the star ratings on the Hospital Compare website to help millions of patients and their families learn about the quality of hospitals, compare facilities in their area side-by-side, and ask important questions about care quality when visiting a hospital or other healthcare provider."
According to Goodrich, the rating includes quality measures for routine care that the average individual receives, such as care received when being treated for heart attacks and pneumonia, to quality measures that focus on hospital-acquired infections, such as catheter-associated urinary tract infections. CMS has been posting star ratings for different facilities for a decade and have found that publicly available data drives improvement, better reporting, and more open access to quality information for Medicare beneficiaries.
“Our 5-star rating is a reflection of our ongoing efforts to provide the highest quality of care across our entire range of services,” said Mark Pawlak, Senior Vice President, Quality, IS & Hospital Operations. “We know that health care consumers are doing more comparative research to find the best quality for their health care dollars. The Hospital Compare website gives consumers another opportunity to compare hospitals.”
"When individuals and their families need to make important decisions about healthcare, they seek a reliable way to understand the best choice for themselves or their loved ones," said CMS Center for Clinical Standards and Quality Director Kate Goodrich, MD. “We are updating the star ratings on the Hospital Compare website to help millions of patients and their families learn about the quality of hospitals, compare facilities in their area side-by-side, and ask important questions about care quality when visiting a hospital or other healthcare provider."
According to Goodrich, the rating includes quality measures for routine care that the average individual receives, such as care received when being treated for heart attacks and pneumonia, to quality measures that focus on hospital-acquired infections, such as catheter-associated urinary tract infections. CMS has been posting star ratings for different facilities for a decade and have found that publicly available data drives improvement, better reporting, and more open access to quality information for Medicare beneficiaries.
“Our 5-star rating is a reflection of our ongoing efforts to provide the highest quality of care across our entire range of services,” said Mark Pawlak, Senior Vice President, Quality, IS & Hospital Operations. “We know that health care consumers are doing more comparative research to find the best quality for their health care dollars. The Hospital Compare website gives consumers another opportunity to compare hospitals.”