And yet VH was recently given high marks for responding to strokes.
The Villages(R) Regional Hospital Awarded Advanced Certification for Primary Stroke Center | The Villages Regional Hospital | The Villages, Florida
After a quick glance at the report it looks like the determination of the scores was done without taking into account the age of the population it serves or staffing availability in the area... all things being equal you would expect more falls and respiratory failures at hospitals that draw patients from older populations or that was short on staff... 50 miles takes you to either coast where the population and staff availability is much different than here in central Florida.
I'm not saying that C is a good or even acceptable grade, just that it hard to make comparisons among hospitals based in just raw data without taking into account general age of the population in the area or staff available in the area, as it looks like in this study.
Also it looks like VH recently fired the company providing staff for the ER and changed how the ER works... don't know if that will solve the issues GE pointed out but it does look like things are changing.