# Context There are all sorts of reasons why you'd want to know a hospital's quality rating. - Your mom is having her second hip replacement. Her first one went terribly and you're nervous about how she'll do. Which hospital would you suggest she have her surgery? - You're selecting a health plan on your state's Exchange, but your top two choices partner with different hospitals. How will you decide which plan to pick? - Your brother has Cystic Fibrosis and has to go to the ER frequently. He hates waiting. Which hospitals/states provide care in the timeliest manner? - Your in-laws moved to Florida recently to retire, and have been trying to convince you to move there too. You're looking for any way possible to show them that your state is better. Does your state have better hospitals? Every hospital in the United States of America that accepts publicly insured patients (Medicaid or MediCare) is required to submit quality data, quarterly, to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). There are very few hospitals that do not accept publicly insured patients, so this is quite a comprehensive list. # Content This file contains general information about all hospitals that have been registered with Medicare, including their addresses, type of hospital, and ownership structure. It also contains information about the quality of each hospital, in the form of an overall rating (1-5, where 5 is the best possible rating & 1 is the worst), and whether the hospital scored above, same as, or below the national average for a variety of measures. This data was updated by CMS on July 25, 2017. CMS' overall rating includes 60 of the 100 measures for which data is collected & reported on Hospital Compare website (https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html). Each of the measures have different collection/reporting dates, so it is impossible to specify exactly which time period this dataset covers. For more information about the timeframes for each measure, see: https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/Data/Data-Updated.html# For more information about the data itself, APIs and a variety of formats, see: https://data.medicare.gov/Hospital-Compare # Acknowledgements Attention: Works of the U.S. Government are in the public domain and permission is not required to reuse them. An attribution to the agency as the source is appreciated. Your materials, however, should not give the false impression of government endorsement of your commercial products or services. See 42 U.S.C. 1320b-10. # Inspiration

Which hospital types & hospital ownerships are most common?

Which hospital types & ownerships are associated with better than average ratings/mortality/readmission/etc?

What is the average hospital rating, by state?

Which hospital types & hospital ownerships are more likely to have not submitted proper data ("Not Available" & "Results are not available for this reporting period")?

Which parts of the country have the highest & lowest density of religious hospitals?