Hospital Report Card - B.C. 2009

From Fraser Inst. News Release May 22: (Excerpt)

The Hospital Report Card: British Columbia 2009 allows the public to look up a given condition or procedure and compare death rates, volumes of procedures, rates of adverse events, and utilization rates for their hospital to those of other hospitals in BC. Provincial health authorities and BC’s health minister did not release hospital names for the Fraser Institute’s first BC Hospital Report Card in 2008, preventing the public from accessing detailed information on the quality and safety of care provided by BC’s hospitals.“By now releasing the names of the hospitals, BC’s government has taken a major step forward in terms of openness and public accountability,” Esmail said. “BC’s health minister should be applauded for providing patients, taxpayers, and health care providers the opportunity to make more informed decisions about health care.”The report card provides performance measurements for specific procedures and conditions and specific areas of care as well as broader measures of quality and safety in its 39 indicators.

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The Vancouver Sun has posted the Fraser Institute's first searchable Hospital Report Card database on our website for our readers to see how their local hospitals fared while performing certain medical procedures. This link has taken you directly to the Fraser Institute's B.C. Report Card page, where you can search by hospital or procedure, and where you can also read about the methodology used by the Fraser Institute to come up with their results. To read The Sun's five-day series on the report card - including comments from patients, doctors, hospital administrators, and other supporters and critics - go to our special page.

The Hospital Report Card: British Columbia 2009 is part of a growing Fraser Institute initiative. The goal of the Hospital Report Card is to contribute to the improvement of hospital care by providing quality of care information directly to patients and the general public. This will help people make more informed choices about their health care and improve hospital performance through enhanced transparency and accountability. A news release summarizing the report card and the current results was issued on May 23, 2009.
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Don Quixote Note: Following is 1 example of the more than 30 different categories.

Hospital Mortality Index view definition The Hospital Mortality Index is an index of death rates by individual hospital or municipality.

MEASURE VERNON Year 01-02 02-03 03-04 04-05 05-06 06-07 Rank 5 11 2 16 22 5 Score 81 74 79 74 64 79

#	Hospital (note on unidentified hospitals )	Rank	Score	Score
1)	Eagle Ridge Hospital	1	89
2)	Lions Gate Hospital	2	86
3)	Vernon Jubilee Hospital	3	85
4)	Vancouver General Hospital	4	85
5)	Penticton Regional Hospital	5	85
6)	Prince George Regional Hospital	6	85
7)	East Kootenay Regional Hospital	7	84
8)	Langley Memorial Hospital	8	83
9)	Peace Arch District Hospital	9	83
10)	St. Paul's Hospital	10	82
11)	Dawson Creek and District Hospital	11	81
12)	Richmond Hospital	12	81
13)	Victoria General and Royal Jubilee Hospitals	13	81
14)	Royal Columbian Hospital	14	80
15)	Royal Inland Hospital	15	80
16)	Kelowna General Hospital	16	80
17)	Ridge Meadows Hospital and Health Care Centre	17	80
18)	Burnaby Hospital	18	79
19)	St. Joseph's General Hospital	19	79
20)	Nanaimo Regional General Hospital	20	78
21)	Surrey Memorial Hospital	21	78
22)	Cowichan District Hospital	22	77
23)	Chilliwack General Hospital	23	77
24)	Matsqui-Sumas-Abbotsford General Hospital	24	74
25)	Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital	25	64
26)	Campbell River and District General Hospital	26	63