Hospitals Rated by Consumer Reports
Posted/updated on: August 2, 2013 at 2:33 am
EAST TEXAS — Consumers Report has done a study on hospitals’ morbidity rates. The study was for Medicare patients 65 and older who had a longer hospital stay than was anticipated. The probe for Medicare claims from 2009 to 2011 was for patients who had surgery in 27 categories of commonly scheduled surgeries. According to KETK, Scoring better were Trinity Mother Frances and Texas Spine and Joint, of Tyler, and Good Shepherd Medical Center and Longview Regional in Longview. East Texas Medical Center in Tyler and Memorial Medical Center in Lufkin did worse than previous reports.
