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Why should I look at health care quality information?

Don't people get good care from every medical facility? Here are the facts:

Not all facilities offer the same quality of care. Some are better than others.
Even good facilities may not be good at everything. A hospital or nursing home might do a good job caring for people with some health problems but a poorer job caring for people with other health problems. Hospital and nursing home stays can be risky. Whenever you go to the hospital for an existing health problem, or spend time in a nursing home, you risk getting a new health problem. Hospitals and nursing homes vary in how well they protect patients from this risk.
- To learn more, visit Five Steps to Safer Health Care.
- Learn tips for staying safe in the hospital: Listen to the Hospital Stays: Reducing Your Risks podcast.
Good quality health care means more than what your physician does. Your own doctor may be highly skilled. But health care quality in hospitals and nursing homes also depends on many other staff, such as nurses and physical therapists, and also on how well the facility is managed.

You want to get the very best quality possible when you or a loved one needs care. This means making good decisions about your health care and where you can go to get it.

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How to use our quality ratings: Use our quality ratings to learn about a health care facility that you or someone you care about will go to for treatment. Find a hospital or find a nursing home by name. Choose from a list of health care facilities in your area to see how they do and compare them. What does each one do well? What could each one do better? Find a hospital by location or find a nursing home by location. Concerned about how well hospitals perform for different conditions, or on different topics? We have ratings on many different illnesses, procedures and other topics. Compare hospitals by a condition or topic that you care about. Use the ratings on this site to: Choose a hospital or nursing home where you want to get your care. Advise a family member or friend about what the ratings say. If you don’t have a choice of health care facility: Identify problems at the hospital or nursing home you have to use. Talk about these problems with your doctor to get their help. Make sure a loved one visits you regularly; ask them to watch out for the problems that worry you.

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