The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services star ratings is one of the go-to measures for evaluating quality in hospitals, but stars are no longer the only gold measure for consumers. Leapfrog also released its hospital ratings this week and there were a few disparities worth noting between the two ratings systems.
But CMS...
The idea that high quality hospital care is best found in an urban setting doesn't hold true in this year's CMS hospital star ratings for Yavapai and Coconino counties.
The overall hospital rating includes more than 100 measures reported on Hospital Compare, divided into seven measure groups or categories: mortality, safety of care,...
