CalHospitalCompare.org Simplifies the Search for Quality Hospital Care 

A new Web site launched today enables Californians to compare the performance of more than 200 hospitals statewide on a variety of quality measures from maternity services to cardiac treatment.

CalHospitalCompare.org allows consumers to search for hospitals by location, name, or medical condition. Hospitals are rated on 50 performance indicators, including patient satisfaction measures and specific conditions, such as heart disease, maternity, and pneumonia. It offers exclusive information on hospital performance, including measures on patient experience that are not included in other sites.

A voluntary collaboration of stakeholders helped create the new online report card. This group, known as the California Hospital Assessment and Reporting Task-force (CHART), includes representatives from hospitals, health plans, health care purchasers and the business community, consumers, the research community, government, and the California HealthCare Foundation, which funded its development. Data collection and analysis were performed by the University of California, San Francisco's Institute for Health Policy Studies.

CalHospitalCompare will be updated regularly. Future enhancements to be added later this year include a Spanish-language version and new pediatric and intensive care measures.

Access the Web site through the link Below.     

www.CalHospitalCompare.org