Understanding a hospital's performance isn't as simple as looking for high or low survival rates. It's survival rates that reflect how sick their patients are - i.e., risk-adjusted survival rates.

So the industry devised a formula for risk-adjusted reports that compares a hospital's actual performance with its "expected" target.

Some hospitals will have an expected survival rate of 98 percent and others, 92 percent. A lower expected number is not a reflection of quality. Instead, it says this hospital's patient pool is very sick, thus high-risk, so its survival rate cannot be expected to exceed 92 percent.

Each hundredth-of-a-point "better than expected" is a hard-won victory against the odds. So look closely and see why we'revery proud.
 

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