In the last few days several sources have released hospital
quality rankings and measures. The bottom line -- CT’s hospitals have a lot of
work to do.
CMS released their long-awaited five
star system for hospital ratings, but no
CT hospitals received five stars. In fact, only one earned four stars
(Backus), 17 received three stars, 9 got two stars and one (Danbury) only
received one star.
According to CMS and Kaiser Health News, Medicare
has penalized 19 of CT’s 28 hospitals every year for high readmission rates
since the program began five years ago. Interestingly, the highest penalty for
readmissions in this round goes to Yale-New Haven, who has applied
to acquire Lawrence and Memorial, with the lowest penalty.
