Comparing hospital quality
If you live in an area with more than one hospital, how can you learn which one is best for the medical care that you need. New databases are helping take some of the guesswork out of the process.
U.S. News and World Report's America's Best Hospitals covers the top 50 hospitals in different categories of care.
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