Virginia Hospitals Introduction

• Virginia Hospitals: A Consumer's Guide - Find up-to-date information on today's hospitals.
  
  
• Hospital Information - Choose a region to list and see details on hospitals in that area. Information on types of care provided, their efficiency, cardiac care quality and more.
  
  
• Cardiac Care - Almost 1 in 7 hospital admissions are for Cardiac Care. Compare hospitals on cardiac care quality including mortality and readmission rates.
  
  
• Obstetrical Care Guide - Helps parents-to-be learn about the birth process, choices they may face and performance and quality of hospitals and physicians that provide the care. Our third version was released in August 2009.
  
  
• Patient Satisfaction - What did patients say about their hospital stay? Did they recommend the hospital? Did they get help as soon as they wanted? Compare hospitals on these and other satisfaction measures across Virginia and the nation.
  
  
• Serviceline Report - Service Lines are broad categories of care based on groupings of 3M’s APR-DRGs. Many categories have both medical and surgical versions–an example is Neurology and Neurological Surgery, both of which deal with neurological disorders. The separate data headings reflect medical versus surgical care for the condition. Procedures within a category may vary as to intensity. The data is adjusted to reflect the variation. You may access an Excel spreadsheet of Service Lines mapped to APR-DRGs at www.vhi.org/serviceline. Further definitions of service lines are provided as tool tips.
  
  
• Hospital Compare - Quality and other information developed by CMS- the federal Government’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
  
  
• Leapfrog - Look up hospital quality information provided by the Leapfrog Group.
  
  
• VHHA PricePoint - More information on hospitals from the Virginia Hospital and HealthCare Association.