Why Not the Best: A Health Care Quality Improvement Resource  

Category: Practice Management

Where does your hospital stand on key measures of healthcare quality? Do you know if you rank among the top 1% of performers for a given quality measure? If you don't know, it's time to find out since this is now publicly available data.

Hospital healthcare quality data were recently released in a new Web resource Why Not the Best. WhyNotTheBest.org was created and is maintained by The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation working toward a high performance health system. It is a free resource for health care professionals interested in tracking performance on various measures of health care quality. It enables organizations to compare their performance against both self-determined peers and state and national benchmarks. Also available are improvement tools from successful improvement strategies of the nation's top performers.

Currently, the site includes measures of ho...