Hospital Compare: 20 Michigan hospitals get top rating

Twenty Michigan hospitals received the top rating — 5 stars — in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ December 2020 Hospital Compare overall ratings.

Using CMS data, the Hospital Compare overall hospital rating uses measures across seven areas of quality to calculate a “star” rating — from 1 (worst) to 5 (best) — for hospitals nationwide. The seven areas of quality are:

Mortality
Safety of care
Readmission
Patient experience
Effectiveness of care
Timeliness of care
Efficient use of medical imaging

To learn more about how the overall hospital rating is calculated, click here.*

After a large increase in the number of 5-star hospitals in Michigan between 2017 and 2020, the number of 5-star hospitals stayed the same from January 2020 to December 2020:

December 2020 — 20
January 2020 — 20
2019 — 11
2018 —10
2017 — 5

Here’s how Michigan hospitals fared in the December 2020 update:

Five stars: 20 hospitals
Four stars: 38 hospitals
Three stars: 28 hospitals
Two stars: 19 hospitals
One star: 3 hospitals

CMS combined the Hospital Compare website with seven other provider compare sites to give consumers one place to find any type of care they need. Consumers can use the Care Compare website to search for information about the quality of care at Medicare-certified hospitals. To find a hospital, click here.*

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