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Other Reports
- Center
for Medical Consumers
A non-profit advocacy organization, the Center for Medical Consumers focuses on both national and statewide efforts aimed at improving health care. The website contains many articles and resources concerning patient safety.
- Consumer Health
Ratings
Provides a comprehensive listing of organizations that rate or report performance on specific hospitals, health plans, physicians, nursing homes, home health agencies and other health care providers in the United States.
- Henry J. Kaiser
Foundation's State Health Facts
This resource contains
the latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy,
including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation.
- Home Health
Compare
Home Health Compare has information about Home Health Quality Measures: Quality measures give you information about how well home health agencies provide care for some of their patients. The measures provide information about patients' physical and mental health, and whether their ability to perform basic daily activities is maintained or improved. Quality information can be used to help you compare home health agencies.
- Hospital Compare
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' consumer-oriented Web site, Hospital Compare, that allows consumers to compare the quality of certain hospital services.
- Hospital Surveys
Offers statewide and
countywide listing of hospitals in New York State, contact information
for concerns/problems/complaints about your hospital care, hospital
complaint form, "Your Rights as a Hospital Patient in New York State"
booklet, and appointing your health care agent (New York Health Care
Proxy Law) in English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish.
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New Jersey
Department of Health: Health Care Quality and Oversight
This site contains information on the programs and services of the New Jersey Department of Health's Division of Health Care Quality and Oversight, including links to quality-of-care reports published by the Department, and to
tools to use to compare health services.
- New York State Department of Health Cardiac Surgery Report
New York State's Department of Health compiles a wide range of information on heart disease care and heart surgery, designed to help health care providers, patients and families of patients who are considering heart surgery. On this site, the Health Department provides data on risk factors associated with in-hospital deaths following coronary artery bypass and/or heart valve surgery and for heart surgery on children. The site
links to reports that give hospital and physician-specific mortality rates which have been risk-adjusted to account for differences in patient severity of illness.
- New York State Department of Health Professional Misconduct
This web site is
maintained by the Office of Professional Medical Conduct (OPMC) in the
New York State Department of Health. OPMC investigates all complaints
against doctors, physicians' assistants and specialist assistants. If
OPMC finds a complaint is warranted, it convenes a Hearing Committee of
the State Board for Professional Medical Conduct; the Board reviews the
case and decides on an appropriate action. The site lists all the medical professionals disciplined by the State Board since 1992. You can search these lists by the name of a doctor or by the month when the State Board issued its finding. Current reports are updated weekly.
- New York State Hospital
Profile
Use this site to find information about hospitals in New York State, and the quality of care they provide. The web site's search capabilities allow consumers to review hospital data by health condition, surgical procedure or special state designation - such as a stroke or burn center. The web site includes information on four health conditions, including care related to heart attacks, heart failure, pneumonia and prevention of surgical infections and up to 20 related services. The hospital profile also highlights risk-adjusted surgical outcomes on adult cardiac bypass and valve surgery, as well as angioplasty procedures and pediatric-specific heart surgery statewide.
- New York State
Nursing Home Profile
Use this site for information about nursing homes in New York State and the quality of care they provide. The quality measures data are from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. These quality measures are among the
most reliable, but measuring quality is difficult because of the
variation among nursing homes in the complexity of residents they care
for.
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Nursing
Home Compare
The primary purpose of
this tool is to provide detailed information about the past performance
of every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the country.
Important information on Nursing Home Compare and other resources,
including the Guide to Choosing a Nursing Home, and Nursing Home
Checklist are also available to help you with your nursing home choice.
Use these tools, along with the information you gather during your
visits to the nursing homes you are interested in, to make your best
choice.
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NYS Home Health &
Hospice Care Profile
Use this site to find
information about home health agencies and hospice programs in New York
State. Where possible, quality of care measurements are provided.
Please be mindful that while we believe these quality measures are
among the most reliable, measuring quality is difficult because of
variations among agencies in the types of patients for whom they care.
You are encouraged to use this information to begin conversations with
your doctor and other health care professionals about your home care
options, as well as with family members, friends, and associates who
may have direct experience with a particular agency or program.
- Patient Safety Center
Information about
important patient safety initiatives, guidelines for school based
health centers and clinical practice guidelines.
- Physician Profile
Information about
doctor's medical education, list of health plans accepted, list of
professional and community service activities or awards, any legal
actions taken and other practice information including the translation
services offered.
- The
State-of-the-Art of Online Hospital Report: A Review of Forty-Seven
Websites
To help assess the
state-of-the-art of online hospital performance reporting, Delmarva
Foundation, in conjunction with staff at the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), identified and
analyzed hospital performance websites along a number of dimensions.
The main criteria for inclusion in the analysis were that the site
provide either hospital clinical or patient satisfaction information,
and identify consumers as the primary or secondary audience.
- Verified
Trauma Centers
The American College of Surgeons verifies the presence of necessary resources. This is a voluntary process and only those trauma centers that have successfully completed a verification visit are listed.
