Percentage of Hospitals with a Five-Star Rating* for the Treatment of…

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America’s 100 Best Hospitals

All other Hospitals

6063

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HEART ATTACK STROKE

80

14

PNEUMONIA

46

6

COPD

94

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SEPSIS

3 WHY YOUR CHOICE MATTERS

1 HIGHER RATINGS = LIVES SAVED

BEFORE AN EMERGENCYKNOW YOUR TOP HOSPITALS

Your life may depend on itHospital Choice

America’s 100 Best Hospitals as a group outperform all otherhospitals in care and treatment ofsome of the top reasons for ER visits.

America’s 100 Best Hospitals™ had an overall 26.5% lower risk-adjusted in-hospital mortality rate for 19procedures and conditions, comparedwith all other American hospitals. If allhospitals performed at this level, morethan 170,000 lives could potentially have been saved.*

Potential Lives Saved+170,000

= 1,000 Potential Lives Saved

Weighted national estimates from HCUP National (Nationwide) Emergency Department Sample (NEDS), 2012, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), based on data collected by individual States and provided to AHRQ by the States.

SOURCE:

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On average.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Statistics are based on Healthgrades analysis of MedPAR data for years 2012 through 2014 and represent 3-year estimates of in-hospital mortality for Medicare patients only.

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5XMORE LIKELY

America’s 100 Best Hospitals

are five times more likely than other facilities to have earned aHealthgrades five-star rating for treating some of the mostfrequent ER conditions.

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