Yelp Has Hospital Ratings

Check out:  www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/04/05/going-to-the-hospital-read-the-yelp-reviews-first

This article itself isn’t of great interest.  What I found interesting was that Yelp (yelp.com) includes hospital ratings.  The article notes that government ratings don’t include 12 categories that Yelp includes:  cost of the hospital visit, insurance and billing, ancillary testing, facilities, amenities, scheduling, compassion of staff, family member care, quality of nursing, quality of staff, quality of technical aspects of care, and specific type of medical care.

So, if you have a choice of hospitals, you might check out Yelp in the future.

Robin