HealthGrades Top Five Markets for Hospital Care Quality

1. West Palm Beach, FL
2. Brownsville, TX
3. Dayton, OH
4. Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
5. Tucson, AZ

Notes: HealthGrades recently announced a list of hospitals performing in the top 5% nationwide across 26 different medical procedures and diagnoses, then ranked cities by highest percentage of these Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence™. HealthGrades evaluates hospitals solely on patients’ clinical outcomes: risk-adjusted mortality and in-hospital complications. HealthGrades’ analysis is based on approximately 40 million Medicare patient discharges for the years 2007, 2008 and 2009.
Source: HealthGrades
Source URL: http://www.healthgrades.com

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