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Patient Choice encourages individuals to be active, informed health care consumers.
Here are some additional resources to help you learn more about hospitals:
5 Million Lives Campaign
Find out if an organization participates in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's national
initiative to improve patient care and prevent avoidable deaths.
Adverse Health Events Report
Check out the Minnesota Department of Health's Adverse Health Events in Minnesota report. It includes information about errors made at area hospitals.
AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs) (For health care professionals.)
Access an array of health care decision-making and research tools developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The Quality Indicators tools use hospital administrative data to highlight potential quality concerns, identify areas that need further study and investigation, and track changes over time.
Hospital Comparison Tool
Use this innovative tool to make more informed decisions about the hospitals you choose by comparing them on a variety of performance measures, including experience and complication rates.
The Joint Commission's Quality CheckTM
Find out if an organization has been accredited for meeting certain quality and safety performance standards.
Medicare's Hospital Compare
Compare how well hospitals care for their adult patients with certain medical conditions, including heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia. You can also see what patients said about the care they received.
The Leapfrog Group
See how much progress hospitals have made toward implementing four Leapfrog-recommended safety practices.
The Minnesota Hospital Quality Report
Review consumer-friendly comparisons of care quality at Minnesota hospitals
for three medical conditions: heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia.
The site, sponsored by the Minnesota Hospital Association and Stratis Health,
shows you how often area hospitals use best practice guidelines when caring for
their patients.
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