Hospital Compare has information about the quality of care at over 4,000 Medicare-certified hospitals across the country including Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH). You can use Hospital Compare to compare the quality of the care provided at SBUH with other hospitals.
The website can be accessed by going directly to . Once on the Hospital Compare site, users can find hospitals by:
- ZIP code
- city, state
- state
- name
After selecting the SBUH or other hospitals of interest, you can examine information about the quality of care provided for the following aspects of healthcare:
- Summarizes approximately shown on Hospital Compare into a single star rating, making it easier to compare hospitals side by side.
- General information: Name, address, telephone number, type of hospital, and other general information about the hospital.
- How patients recently discharged from the hospital responded to a survey about their hospital experience. The survey asked questions such as how well a hospital’s doctors and nurses communicated with the patient.
- How often a hospital gives recommended treatments for certain conditions, such as heart attack, stroke, influenza, and blood clots, how quickly recommended treatments are administered, and how often a hospital follows best practices to prevent surgical complications.
- How likely it is that patients will suffer from complications while in the hospital or after having certain inpatient surgical procedures, and how often patients died within 30 days of being in the hospital for a specific condition.
- Whether patients discharged from a hospital stay returned to the hospital within 30 days, and how much time they spent back in the hospital.
- How a hospital uses outpatient (like CT scans and MRIs).
- Whether the payments made for patients treated at a particular hospital are less than, no different than, or greater than the national average payment.