About Hospitals

This site will help you learn about the quality and cost of health care in Massachusetts.

The Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services provide information about hospitals' quality of care with respects to certain medical services.

A professional organization representing Massachusetts hospitals. The site includes a hospital directory guide and maps of community and teaching hospitals in specific regions.

A non-profit organization that accredits hospitals that meet a long list of safety and quality requirements. The site provides quality of care ratings and results of JCAHO's hospital site visit evaluations. The site also allows consumers to report complaints about a health care organization.

A private, non-profit, federally-approved quality improvement organization. The site describes various programs lead by MassPRO to engage senior leaders and frontline quality improvement staff in efforts to implement best practices.

A private, non-profit organization that provides information on very specific hospital quality measures.

A private for-profit company that provides quality, cost, patient volume and patient safety information for a variety of hospital services and procedures.

U.S. News & World Report is a for-profit news magazine that uses reputation and quantitative measures to rate hospitals.