HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) is a national, standardized survey of hospital patients. HCAHPS (pronounced “H-caps”) was created to publicly report the patient’s perspective of hospital care. The survey asks a random sample of recently discharged patients about important aspects of their hospital experience.

The HCAHPS results posted on Hospital Compare allow consumers to make fair and objective comparisons between hospitals, and of individual hospitals to state and national benchmarks, on ten important measures of patients’ perspectives of care.

HCAHPS was developed by a partnership of public and private organizations. Development of the survey was funded by the Federal government, specifically the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

For more on HCAHPS information, please see Information for Professionals on this website, or visit the official HCAHPS website: www.hcahpsonline.org.

Related posts:

1. Information on how well the hospitals care for all their adult patients with certain conditions or procedures information on how well the hospitals care for all their adult patients with certain conditions or procedures...
2. Alliance Organizations List Who are Working To Improve Hospital Quality Alliance Organizations Working To Improve Hospital Quality...
3. Information about the quality of the care hospitals give patients who are being treated for a heart attack information about the quality of the care hospitals give patients who are being treated for a heart attack...
4. Medicare Help – What are the Hospital Process of Care Measures A process of care measure shows how often hospitals give recommended treatments known to get the best results for patients with certain medical conditions or surgical procedures. Information about these treatments are taken from the patients’ records and converted into a percentage. This is one way to compare the quality of care that hospitals give. ...
5. MEDICARE – CMS LAUNCHES FIFTH ANNUAL MEDICARE HEALTH CARE PROVIDER SATISFACTION SURVEY The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched the fifth annual health care provider satisfaction survey of the Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) contractors that process and pay more than $370 billion in Medicare claims each year....
6. Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Adults: National Health Interview Survey, 2008 Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Adults: National Health Interview Survey, 2008...
7. Medicare Part A Hospital Insurance Coverage Care in hospitals as an inpatient, critical access hospitals (small facilities that give limited outpatient and inpatient services to people in rural areas), skilled nursing facilities (not custodial or long-term care), hospice care, and some home health care. Information about your coverage under Medicare Part A can be found in the Your Medicare Coverage database...
8. Get Help Finding Healthcare for Medicare Healthcare.gov is a new government website that helps you to find insurance options based on your situation; understand the Affordable Care Act; compare hospitals; get tips on preventing common diseases; and more....
9. Bypass surgery, medications both options to be considered for heart failure patients with coronary artery disease A new study found that coronary artery bypass surgery added to medical therapy for selected chronic heart failure patients offered benefits over medical therapy alone. The combination of the two treatment approaches reduced the combined rate of deaths and heart-related hospital stays by 15 percent, although the total number of deaths between the two groups [...]...
10. MedicareCard.com News – New Grant Aims: Identify, Reduce Suicide Among Emergency Department Patients A new NIMH-funded grant aims to increase suicide detection and prevention efforts among patients who present with suicide risk factors in hospital emergency department...
11. What have you accomplished with a CAHPS survey? What have you accomplished with a CAHPS survey?...
12. Medicare Information – What is Medicare Payment and Volume Patients that have similar clinical characteristics and similar costs are assigned to an MS-DRG. The MS-DRG will be associated with a fixed payment amount based on the average cost of patients in the group....
13. Medicare, Elderly, Disabled Housing Assistance Home, it’s more than brick-and-mortar, wood, or even blocks of ice shaped in a dome! Home is your place, your retreat from the world, your sanctuary for the soul. For me, home is all of those things and toilets to clean, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Everyone should have an opportunity to [...]...
14. Medicare: COPD awareness continues to rise, new NIH survey finds Awareness of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), the nation’s third leading killer, continues to rise in the United States, according to the results of a Web-based survey released today by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health....
15. Medicare covers many of your health care needs. Medicare covers many of your health care needs. ...