Benchmarking Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA against
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA has the lowest overall hospital rating (★★●●●) of the 116 hospitals that are better than the national patient-care averages in both mortality and patient experience. Those 2 stars compare to an average of 4.3 stars across the 116 hospitals.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has these related standings among those 116 hospitals:
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has these related standings among those 116 hospitals:
- overall hospital rating = 2 stars (the lowest, tied)
- change in overall hospital rating over two years = -1 star (the biggest drop, tied)
- change in overall hospital rating over one year = 0 stars (15th-lowest, tied)
tied with University of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham, AL, Lowell General Hospital in Lowell, MA, Saint Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ, and Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, NY, all with 2 stars.
trailed Aurora St Lukes Medical Center in Milwaukee, WI (3 stars), Medical College of Virginia Hospitals in Richmond, VA (3 stars), The Miriam Hospital in Providence, RI (3 stars), and University Hospitals of Cleveland in Cleveland, OH (3 stars), and 107 others, ending with Prattville Baptist Hospital in Prattville, AL (5 stars).
trailed Aurora St Lukes Medical Center in Milwaukee, WI (3 stars), Medical College of Virginia Hospitals in Richmond, VA (3 stars), The Miriam Hospital in Providence, RI (3 stars), and University Hospitals of Cleveland in Cleveland, OH (3 stars), and 107 others, ending with Prattville Baptist Hospital in Prattville, AL (5 stars).
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- are better than the national patient-care averages in. Bigger sets are better. Note: the Hospital Compare data uses the phrase above (or below) the national average which might be regarded as ambiguously meaning either better than or larger than. Therefore, we opted to use the phrase better than (or worse than) the national average. Refer to Comprehensive Methodology Report. Except where noted, all data come from the Oct 28, 2020 update at Hospital Compare. Changes over one year compare to the Oct 2019 update. Changes over two years compare to the Oct 2018 update.
- overall hospital rating. Higher values are better. 5 stars is the best rating and 1 star is the worst. Refer to Hospital Compare overall hospital rating. Except where noted, all data come from the Oct 28, 2020 update at Hospital Compare. Changes over one year compare to the Oct 2019 update. Changes over two years compare to the Oct 2018 update.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA is in Boston, MA, is on the East Coast, worse than the national rate of pressure sores, worse than the national rate of serious complications, worse than the national rate of serious blood clots after surgery, worse than the national rate of hospital return days for pneumonia patients, worse than the national rate of hospital return days for heart attack patients, worse than the national rate of complications for hip/knee replacement patients, worse than the national rate of hospital return days for heart failure patients, provides emergency services, is acute care, is voluntary non-profit (private), its emergency department volume is high, has a 1- or 2-star rating in quietness, has a 4- or 5-star rating in each of care transition, discharge information, nurse communication, overall patient rating, and recommendation of hospital (5 total), has at least a 3-star rating in each of care transition, cleanliness, communication about medicines, discharge information, doctor communication, nurse communication, overall patient rating, recommendation of hospital, and staff responsiveness (9 total), is better than the national death rates in both pneumonia and heart failure, is better than the national infection benchmarks in both MRSA and C.diff., is worse than the national patient-care averages in each of safety of care, readmission, timeliness of care, and efficient use of medical imaging (4 total), is better than the national patient-care averages in both mortality and patient experience, and is worse than the nationwide emergency department averages in each of admit decision to inpatient admission, arrival to discharge, arrival to discharge for psychiatrics, and patients who left before being seen.
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Numeric values:
- patients who received appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock (72%)
- patients who left the emergency department before being seen (2%)
- care-transition rating (4 stars)
- change in care-transition rating over one year (0 stars)
- change in care-transition rating over two years (0 stars)
- change in cleanliness rating over one year (+1 star)
- change in cleanliness rating over two years (+1 star)
- change in communication-about-medicines rating over one year (0 stars)
- change in communication-about-medicines rating over two years (0 stars)
- change in discharge-information rating over one year (0 stars)
- change in discharge-information rating over two years (+1 star)
- change in doctor-communication rating over one year (0 stars)
- change in doctor-communication rating over two years (0 stars)
- change in nurse-communication rating over one year (0 stars)
- change in nurse-communication rating over two years (+1 star)
- change in overall hospital rating over one year (0 stars)
- change in overall hospital rating over two years (-1 star)
- change in overall patient rating over one year (0 stars)
- change in overall patient rating over two years (+1 star)
- change in patient-recommendation rating over one year (0 stars)
- change in patient-recommendation rating over two years (0 stars)
- change in quietness rating over one year (0 stars)
- change in quietness rating over two years (+1 star)
- change in staff-responsiveness rating over one year (+1 star)
- change in staff-responsiveness rating over two years (+1 star)
- change in summary rating over one year (0 stars)
- change in summary rating over two years (0 stars)
- cleanliness rating (3 stars)
- communication-about-medicines rating (3 stars)
- discharge-information rating (4 stars)
- doctor-communication rating (3 stars)
- nurse-communication rating (4 stars)
- overall hospital rating (2 stars)
- overall patient rating (4 stars)
- patient recommendation rating (4 stars)
- quietness rating (2 stars)
- staff-responsiveness rating (3 stars)
- summary rating (3 stars)
- median time from admit decision to time of departure from the emergency department for patients admitted to inpatient status (217 mins)
- median time from emergency department arrival to emergency department departure for discharged patients (315 mins)
- median time from emergency department arrival to emergency department departure for discharged psychiatric/mental health patients (417 mins)
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