Is your hospital hospitable?

Wanna give the goods on your hospital? Or see how it ranks with others in the area? Well, log onto the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service's Web site Hospital Compare and you can do both.

This federal Web site compares more than 40 hospitals in the metro-area on patient experience, price, and quality. Hometown Hospital Giant Henry Ford scored a 73 percent approval rating, six points above the national average.

Detroit Receiving ranked above average when it came to the quietness of the hospital.

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services posted the patient satisfaction survey information on its Hospital Compare Web site.

Over the last several years, CMS has been developing the site to give consumers information on three critical elements — quality, patient satisfaction and pricing for specific procedures. The latest is patient satisfaction.

“CMS has been gradually trying to put, piece by piece, information out there to help consumers make decisions,” said William Conway, chief quality officer with Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. “It is a good thing the industry did something like this.”

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