Healthgrades released its annual analysis of the nation’s hospitals, the 2017 Healthgrades Report to the Nation, which offers insight on variation in clinical quality and outcomes across the country. The Report also examines patients’ risk for complications and mortality with common surgeries along with relative driving distance to hospitals in general, and to hospitals demonstrating superior outcomes in a surgery or procedure.
Healthgrades also released a new, first-of-its-kind Risk IQ Tool today that helps consumers assess their personal risk as it relates to six common surgical procedures, and then provides guidance to select a high quality hospital and physician for their procedure.