Medical Malpractice

Anyone know a website that ranks hospitals?

I live in the NYC area, there are several hospitals all within driving distance. Being that my wife is pregnant I've started to wonder which hospital I would go to if there was an emergency. I would like to find a website that ranks hospitals in differerent categories so I would know which is the best one.

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1. US News and World Report: http://health.usnews.com/sections/health/best-hospitals Health insight - ranks based on CMS(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) quality performance measures: http://www.healthinsight.org/performance/hosp_rankings/hospitals.html These are two very good sources of data and review for you to start off with. Once you have a list of say three health centers you can do a web search on "my ____ hospital experience". This search should return a lot of actual patient discussions on forum websites. These types of discussions can give you a good idea of the atmosphere and general opinion out there about that hospital. I always read these with the 80/20 rule in mind. Out of 100 people 80 may have a good experience and say nothing, 20 might have a poor expirience and complain loudly. Hope that helps.