New York Hospitals Rated Lowest in U.S.

 

by Bill Hammond

New York’s hospitals collectively rank dead last among the 50 states in a new report card from the federal government, an Empire Center analysis shows.

On Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its first-ever star ratings for hospitals across the country, based on 64 measures of quality.

Just one New York institution, the Hospital for Special Surgery, received the top rating of five stars, and only 12 received four stars. Forty-nine of the state’s hospitals were rated average with three stars, 58 got two stars and 35 got one star.

That translates to an average score of 2.26, which was the lowest of any state, the analysis found. Just above New York were the hospitals of Nevada (2.29), New Jersey (2.47), Florida (2.62), and Connecticut (2.64).

The states with the best averages were South Dakota (4.12), Idaho (3.65), Wisconsin (3.65), Minnesota (3.53), and Delaware (3.50). 

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Source: NY Torch and the Empire Report