Sometimes you want to localize a study by seeing how it relates to local health care facilities in your area. For example, if a study comes out suggesting that a high percentage of hospitals are doing poorly on a particular quality control issue, how are the local hospitals in your area doing in that area? One place to look is the new Quality, Certification and Oversights Reports site from CMS. The site allows you to run reports on more than a dozen types of healthcare facilities, including hospitals, nursing homes, CLIA laboratories, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Hospices, rehab centers, rural clinics, facilities for those with intellectual disabilities, dialysis centers and more. You select the size and types of facilities and the accreditation organization you want to use to see deficiencies, with multiple ways to sort the data.
In addition to the data available above, you can get performance data specific to nursing homes on the CMS’s Nursing Home Compare site and on hospitals on the Hospital Comparesite. These data, along with similar data on hospitals, health plans, Medicare Part D plans, suppliers and more, are available for download from the CMS Download Database.