The NYS Hospital Profile provides various quality measures and tools for comparing hospitals. You may also want to consider the following before selecting a hospital:
- Speak with your doctor and ask:
- Which hospitals do you personally work with?
- Which hospital would you recommend for my condition and why?
- Were your other patients treated well at that hospital?
- Talk to your health insurer about:
- Potential restrictions on which hospitals you can go to for non-emergency care.
- How visiting certain hospitals may affect how much you pay.
- Check if the hospital:
- Is accredited as meeting health and safety standards by a national organization, such as the The Joint Commission.
- Monitors, evaluates, and improves its quality of care.
- Is conveniently located.
- Has sufficient visiting hours that meet your needs.
- Is clean and comfortable.
- Has private rooms.