CMS Updates ‘Hospital Compare,’ ‘Nursing Home Compare’ Websites

July 20, 2012, 4:00 AM UTC

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 19 announced that two websites that help patients make informed choices about hospitals and nursing homes have been redesigned to make more information available to the public.

The two sites—Hospital Compare and Nursing Home Compare—have been enhanced to make navigation easier by users and add important new comparison tools like findings from nursing home inspections, CMS said.

“These enhanced tools give patients, their families, and caregivers the ability to make an informed decision on where to seek care by looking at how well hospitals and nursing homes are performing on ...

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