Southwestern Vermont Medical Center Earns Four Stars from Medicare
BENNINGTON, Vt. — Southwestern Vermont Medical Center earned four out of a possible five stars under Medicare’s new star rating system.
The system evaluates 64 measures of safety and performance — death rates, readmissions, safety indicators and patient satisfaction scores, for instance — to assign a star rating to each hospital. The aim is to provide more transparency to healthcare consumers by allowing them to compare hospitals.
Healthcare consumers interested in reviewing ratings may visit medicare.gov/hospitalcompare.
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