Choosing a hospital is an important decision. Information about the quality, safety, and efficiency of care delivered in specific hospitals can help. The Leapfrog Group makes available two sets of hospital ratings that consumers can use in their review and selection of a hospital.

People choose hospitals in many different situations. Some need to choose a hospital for an important surgery or procedure they’ve just learned they need. Others select a specific hospital during their employer’s health care enrollment period. Still others wonder what hospital is ‘best’ after relocating to a new town.

If you need to choose a new hospital for your employer’s health plan options, both sets of the Leapfrog Hospital Ratings can help. The two sets of ratings provide a wealth of quality, safety, and efficiency information about America’s hospitals. These can help you review and compare the performance of the hospitals you have to choose from for your new health plan options.

Of course, there is other information to consider when choosing a hospital. This information might include your doctor’s recommendation, how much your health plan pays for hospital care, financial incentives that may be offered by your employer for choosing high-performing hospitals, and any past experiences you or family or friends have had with specific hospitals. Along with these considerations, Leapfrog aims to provide consumers with objective, reliable, and critical information about the performance of America’s hospitals. As more and more consumers demand this type of information, Leapfrog—recognized as an industry leader in this area—stands ready to provide it.