MHCC Guide

The Maryland Health Care Commission Guide is designed to assist consumers and their families in obtaining quality hospital based care.

How a Patient Should Utilize These Reports

These reports reflect our performance on specific quality measures. Quality measures give you information about how well a hospital provides care for some (but not all) patients. The quality measures reported on these sites reflect certain components of recommended care for patients with three of the most common conditions requiring hospitalization: heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia. Most of these sites reflect data from 2004, so they do not include our most current performance rates. There is generally a six to twelve month lag time before the web sites upload the data we send them on a regular basis.

We encourage you to review these reports and talk to your health care provider about what this information means. We also welcome your questions about our performance in the care of these and other conditions.

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