If you enjoy morbid statistics, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has got a website for you. At DHS’s Hospital Compare site, you can figure out (among other things) how many people died from various diseases at hospitals you are likely to visit.
Hospital Compare is awful to navigate, but there is a ton of information available. For example, you can dig around and find the death rates for pneumonia at several Minneapolis hospitals (all normal, phew).
Less sensational, but more useful, you can compare patients’ experiences at relevant hospitals, as well.
Compare Hospital Death Rates | Terri’s Consumer BlogCompare Hospital Death Rates
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