In a new hospital ranking, doing good counts nearly as much as doing well
You won’t find the usual suspects like Massachusetts General Hospital or the Mayo Clinic at the top of a new ranking of U.S. hospitals. That’s because the rating system relies not just on traditional quality measures, but also on a hospital’s community-minded policies and avoidance of unnecessary care.
The rankings show that those hospitals with good clinical outcomes tend to score poorly in addressing inequities that affect the health of their communities. And even when hospitals perform many low-value procedures — those that research has shown to be of limited or no benefit — their patients generally have a low risk of dying both in the hospital and after being discharged, as well as a low risk of having to be readmitted.
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