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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.


• 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.


• 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.


• 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.

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