Only 2% Of Nation’s Hospitals Get 5-Star Quality Rating, CMS Data Show.

reports the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released data yesterday showing that only “102 out of nearly 4,600 U.S. hospitals won an overall rating of five stars,” a rate of just 2.2 percent nationwide. The rating is based on 62 quality measurements, including things like “care patients get for heart attacks and pneumonia, as well as the rate that patients get an infection after surgery, emergency room wait times and complication rates after hip replacements.” On the other side of the spectrum, three percent of hospitals, 133, received a one star rating. Three stars was the most common rating, with 1,770 hospitals, or 38.5 percent. Two stars followed, with 723 hospitals, or 15.7 percent. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/21/only-about-2-percent-of-the-nations-hospitals-get-5-star-quality-rating.html