New Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Rating
Nursing Home Compare provides quality ratings for each of the nation’s 16,000 Medicare and/or Medicaid-certified nursing homes.
Each facility is rated from a low of one star to a high of five stars based on three critical areas: health inspection results, quality measures, and staffing levels. An overall rating is also provided. Use the quality ratings together with other information about nursing homes you get by talking to your doctor or other health care provider, visiting nursing homes and talking to the staff, and contacting the Long-Term Care Ombudsman or State Survey Agency.
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Your Rights as a Hospital Patient
To learn about your rights when you are in the hospital read the American Hospital Association’s Patient Bill of Rights.
If you are a Medicare patient, the hospital should give you a copy of the Important Message From Medicare notice. You can learn more about your Medicare rights by reading the publication Your Medicare Rights and Protections.
The Hospital Quality Alliance and Hospital Compare
The Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA): Improving Care Through Information was created in December 2002. Led by the American Hospital Association (AHA), Federation of American Hospitals (FAH), and Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the HQA effort is intended to make it easier for the consumer to make informed healthcare decisions, and to support efforts to improve quality in U.S. hospitals. The major vehicle for achieving this goal is the consumer-oriented Hospital Compare website.
The HQA collaborators and others support this initiative as the beginning of an ongoing effort to make hospital performance information more accessible to the public, payers, and providers of care. For a list of all the members participating in the HQA, click here.