Georgia Hospitals Rated ‘Weak’
(AJC) — Twenty-two hospitals across Georgia stand out in the latest Medicare data for poor results for patients with pneumonia or heart trouble. Those negative ratings come on top of federal assessments that describe the quality of care in Georgia hospitals statewide as “weak.”
Georgia hospitals posted particularly poor results for care of pneumonia patients between 2005 and 2008. Fourteen hospitals statewide fall into a group of 284 hospitals across the nation — about 6 percent of hospitals — with the highest death rates among patients admitted with a pneumonia diagnosis.
