While Medicare rated most hospitals as average, it identified 95 hospitals with rates that were higher than the national average in one of the two categories, and 97 hospitals with rates that were lower than average. Those outlier hospitals are listed in the sortable table below. A dash (—) indicates the hospital had average performance for that indicator.

You can look up any individual hospital on Medicare’s or see .  In judging hospitals, Medicare evaluated cases between July 2009 and June 2012.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

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