It appears as if medical consumers will be able to see how VA hospitals stack up against each other and private hospitals in their region on Medicare’s Hospital Compare web tool in the future.
“In November 2001, HHS announced the Quality Initiative to assure quality health care for all Americans through accountability and public disclosure. The Initiative is intended to (a) empower consumers with quality of care information to make more informed decisions about their health care, and (b) encourage providers and clinicians to improve the quality of health care.”
I’ve emailed Medicare to find out why the VA’s data has been “suppressed for one or more quarters by CMS” according to footnotes. Will update this post when I hear back. In the meantime, many private hospitals have selected data online now. (You can also compare physicians, nursing homes, home health and dialysis providers too.)
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Bethanie Spangenberg
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Wesley McCauley
Veterans Claims Help 
They will never tell the American People how Shitty VA care is.
i got to see this one.