Some New York City hospitals just are not up to snuff, according to a new federal quality report.
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services gave eight public hospitals in the city just one star out of five.
The low ranking facilities include Coney Island Hospital, Harlem Hospital and Elmhurst Hospital.
Several factors were considered including mortality, re-admissions, patient experience and safety.
Six other private medical centers also received one star.
Sixty-two hospitals were given two stars out of five.
The Hospital for Special Surgery was the only one to get a five star rating.
(Source: NY1)
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It would be really helpful if you gave a link where we could find the whole list.
OK, so they left out this part of the article;
In a statement, NYC Health + Hospitals said in part, “We support the American Hospital Association’s position that the rating system unfairly penalizes teaching hospitals and hospitals providing care for the most vulnerable populations, and hope CMS will consider a more fair and accurate hospital star ratings system.”
While at north shore saw nurse drop a page from a chart federal inspector wrote it up. Even though she picked it up
Problem is many of the violations are junk but you will never no
The system is geared for there re imbursement of costs so lower scores less money
The criteria that were mentioned that were used to give that rating to the hospital are unfair. Because of Coney Island Hospital’s location, the average patient is between the upper 70s and low 80s. There is also a tremendous amount of patients at the hospital sees that come from nursing homes. When you combine the average age of the patient and the fact that many of them come from a nursing home, that is going to dramatically increase the rate of readmission as well as mortality.
#3, kollel faker, makes sn excellent point! Really curious to know how much that is a factor.