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Originally Posted by Snowbirdtobe
Medicare has a star ratings system that grades the hospitals on a sliding scale. The Villages Hospital still has a one star rating on overall care and Patient survey rating. The nearest 3 star hospitals are Adventhealth Ocala and Adventhealth Waterman.
The star ratings system gives 5 stars to the best hospitals in the country and 1 star to the worst.
The ratings are done by Medicare and the hospital dataset was updated on Jan 31 2024.
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Those ratings are questionable, since they only look at 4 outcome and readmission criteria---acute MI, CHF, CAP and nosocomial infection. Their "data set" and ratings run about 2-3 years behind what is actually happening as well. In addition, that data is highly skewed when the population of the catchment area is older than the national average and the hospital is serving a larger population than average. Nobody is claiming The Villages Regional Hospital is Mass. General. But the reviews by those that have actually been there recently are overwhelmingly positive.