Nursing Home Compare Data Sources May 6, 2014September 24, 20180 Nursing Home Compare allows consumers to compare information about nursing homes. It contains quality of care information on every Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing home in the country, including over 15,000 nationwide. The data comes from the CMS Health Inspection database and the National database known as the Minimum Data
CalQualityCare.org Data Sources May 6, 2014December 24, 20180 CalQualityCare.org provides information on California hospitals, medical groups, nursing homes, and other long-term care facilities, along with tips and checklists about how to choose a health care provider, questions to ask, how to pay for care, and what to do if something goes wrong. CalQualityCare has its own rating
Why Not The Best Data Sources April 29, 2014April 29, 20140 Why Not The Best was created and is maintained by The Commonwealth Fund (link: commonwealthfund.org), a private foundation working toward a high performance health system. It is a free resource for health care professionals interested in tracking performance on various measures of health care quality. It enables organizations to compare
Health System Data Center Data Sources April 22, 2014December 13, 20190 The Commonwealth Fund's (commonwealthfund.org) Health Systems Data Center provides for comparisons of state and regional data on access to healthcare, prevention and treatment, avoidable hospital use, and health lives. The site ranks all 50 states and the District of Columbia on their performance for 38 different indicators. It also ranks 306
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data Sources April 15, 2014August 22, 20180 The Center for Disease Control's (CDC's) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a system of health-related telephone surveys that collect state data about US residents regarding their health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventative services. BRFSS collects data in all 50 states as well as
US Census American FactFinder Data Sources April 9, 2014May 28, 20140 American FactFinder is a tool from the US Census Bureau (link: census.gov) that provides access to data from several censuses and surveys. Data is available for the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas and covers a wide range of topics from income to education to health insurance