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Do You Know?....

You didn’t choose your medical condition, but you can choose your hospital.There may be several hospitals in your area. Some have great reputations — some you don’t know at all. How do you know which hospital is the best choice for the care you need? Now it’s easy. In the past, it was nearly impossible to find out about the hospitals in your area. Today, with access to the Hospital Comparison Tool, you can investigate your options from the privacy of your personal computer. It’s a confidential service for you to use free of charge as a company benefit because your company is a VBCH HOSPITALpick subscribe.

1. 30 Percent of all direct health care outlays today are a result of "poor quality" 
2. Private purchasers absorb about one-third of these costs
   
3. Poor quality care costs a typical employer between $1,900 and $2,250 per covered employee per year (Source:  Midwest Business Group on Health and Juran
Institute 2002) 

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Not a subscriber to HOSPITALpick and want to learn more?  Quality information about health care providers, or hospitals, is now internet accessible through the Virginia Business Coalition on Health (VBCH). This snapshot e-report card shows data for five separate procedures conditions, using 2004 Virginia all payer data and compares patient volume, mortality, complications, length of stay and cost. The five conditions are:

Consumer Hospital Report Card:

• Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG)
• Stroke
• Pneumonia
• Colon Cancer
• Total Hip Replacement

 

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