Hospitals BlockPy Library

From the CORGIS Dataset Project

By Dennis Kafura
Version 1.0.0, created 6/10/2019
Tags: hospitals, health care, medical, hospital costs, hospital quality

Overview

The data set allows consumers to directly compare across hospitals performance measure information related to heart attack, emergency department care, preventive care, stroke care, and other conditions. The data is part of an Administration-wide effort to increase the availability and accessibility of information on quality, utilization, and costs for effective, informed decision-making.

https://data.medicare.gov/data/hospital-compare

Key Descriptions

Key	List of...	Comment	Example Value
Facility.Name	String	Name of the hospital	"Southeast Alabama Medical Center"
Facility.City	String	City in which the hospital is located	"Dothan"
Facility.State	String	Two letter capitalized abbreviation of the State in which the hospital is located (e.g., AZ is Arizona)	"AL"
Facility.Type	String	Kind of organization operating the hospital: one of Government, Private, Proprietary, Church, or Unknown	"Government"
Rating.Overall	Integer	Overall rating between 1 and 5 stars, with 5 stars being the highest rating; -1 represents no rating.	2
Rating.Mortality	String	Above, Same, Below, or Unknown comparison to national hospital mortality	"Below"
Rating.Safety	String	Above, Same, Below, or Unknown comparison to national hospital safety	"Above"
Rating.Readmission	String	Above, Same, Below, or Unknown comparison to national hospital readmission	"Below"
Rating.Experience	String	Above, Same, Below, or Unknown comparison to national hospital patience experience	"Below"
Rating.Effectiveness	String	Above, Same, Below, or Unknown comparison to national hospital effectiveness of care	"Same"
Rating.Timeliness	String	Above, Same, Below, or Unknown comparison to national hospital timeliness of care	"Above"
Rating.Imaging	String	Above, Same, Below, or Unknown comparison to national hospital effective use of imaging	"Same"
Procedure.Heart Attack.Cost	Integer	Average cost of care for heart attacks	23394
Procedure.Heart Attack.Quality	String	Lower, Average, Worse, or Unknown comparison to national quality of care for heart attacks	"Average"
Procedure.Heart Attack.Value	String	Lower, Average, Worse, or Unknown comparison to national cost of care for heart attacks	"Average"
Procedure.Heart Failure.Cost	Integer	Average cost of care for heart failure	17041
Procedure.Heart Failure.Quality	String	Lower, Average, Worse, or Unknown comparison to national quality of care for heart failures	"Average"
Procedure.Heart Failure.Value	String	Lower, Average, Worse, or Unknown comparison to national cost of care for heart failures	"Average"
Procedure.Pneumonia.Cost	Integer	Average cost of care for pneumonia	18281
Procedure.Pneumonia.Quality	String	Lower, Average, Worse, or Unknown comparison to national quality of care for pneumonia	"Average"
Procedure.Pneumonia.Value	String	Lower, Average, Worse, or Unknown comparison to national cost of care for pneumonia	"Average"
Procedure.Hip Knee.Cost	Integer	Average cost of care for hip or knee conditions	25812
Procedure.Hip Knee.Quality	String	Lower, Average, Worse, or Unknown comparison to national quality of care for hip or knee conditions	"Average"
Procedure.Hip Knee.Value	String	Lower, Average, Worse, or Unknown comparison to national cost of care for hip or knee conditions	"Higher"