Alegent Health Community Memorial Hospital issued the following announcement.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released its Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings for 2021. CHI Health Good Samaritan was one of only four Nebraska hospitals to receive a rating of five stars--the highest achievement possible.
The Overall Star Ratings is designed to assist patients, consumers and others in comparing hospitals side-by-side. The more stars, the better the hospital performs on the quality measures across five areas--mortality, safety of care, readmission, patient experience and timely and effective care.
CMS assigned the new ratings to hospitals nationwide on April 28 as follows:
- 204 hospitals received a one-star rating
- 690 hospitals received a two-star rating
- 1,018 hospitals received a three-star rating
- 988 received a four-star rating
- 455 received a five-star rating
Original source can be found here.
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