{"id":1589,"date":"2013-08-06T17:51:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T17:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2013-08-06T17:51:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T17:51:28","slug":"top-hospitals-arent-always-tops-new-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1589","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Top&#8217; hospitals aren&#8217;t always tops, new report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Maggie Fox\u00a0 <\/em>NBC News\u00a0\u00a0July 31, 2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The top hospitals don\u2019t always live up to their reputations when it comes to handling surgery, according to a new report released on Wednesday.\u00a0 Consumer Reports used newly available federal government data to look at how patients fared after surgery at nearly 2,500 hospitals in 50 states. The report found some of the big-name hospitals did not always do well in preventing infections and other measures of quality care, while some busy urban hospitals that care for the poorest and sickest patients often did surprisingly well.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/top-hospitals-arent-always-tops-new-report-finds-6C10802114\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maggie Fox\u00a0 NBC News\u00a0\u00a0July 31, 2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The top hospitals don\u2019t always live up to their reputations when it comes to handling surgery, according to a new report released on Wednesday.\u00a0 Consumer <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1589\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,59],"tags":[221,25,433],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-consumer-reports","tag-healthcare","tag-hospital-ratings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}