Originally Posted by
chasm54
Except it isn't info, really. It presents very superficial analyses as if they were facts, and encourages people to draw conclusions from them - conclusions that may or may not be justified, given that these are very simplistic distillations of a few datasets that give a very incomplete picture of what is going on and may actually be misleading.
Likely so, but do a Google on the topic and you can see MANY hospitals now claiming to be in the top 50, or attaining an A status. I would ponder that CMS (USA's Medicare and Medicaid funder and overseer) will be most interested in these results, and, politically, these results will require changes in those hospitals receiving less than an A.
With AARP behind them, these ratings WILL have a BIG impact on hospitals, superficial or not.
Who wants to go to a "C" hospital, no matter how fair or unfair or superficial the rating? Which hospital wants to be rated by a national, very influential, organization - AARP - as a B - F?