Austin Area Hospitals Ranked: Find Out Which Have the Highest and Lowest Ratings

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Compare sifted through data for nearly 5,000 hospitals and results from surveys from patients to rank the centers, from worst to first, in terms of in-patient care.

In its latest report, one Austin area hospital (out of 309 nationally) earned five stars. No hospitals received one star. Poor scores can result lower reimbursement rates from Medicare under the government’s value-based purchasing program, according to the survey.

CMS, a consumer-oriented website that provides information on how well hospitals provide recommended care to their patients, updated its rankings on Oct. 8, which are based on patient responses to Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems surveys between Jan.1 and Dec. 31 of 2014. Patients receive these at the end of their care and are asked to answer questions on the quality of the experience they received from each hospital.

Here’s the full list of the latest CMS rankings for the Austin area:

Five Stars

• Northwest Hills Surgical Hospital

Four Stars

• St. David’s Medical Center, Austin
• St. David’s South Austin
• Round Rock Medical Center
• North Austin Medical Center
• Seton Southwest Hospital
• Arise Austin Medical Center
• Scott & White Hospital, Round Rock
• Seton Medical Center Williamson

Three Stars

• Seton Medical Center Austin
• University Medical Center at Brackenridge
• Seton Northwest Hospital
• The Hospital at Westlake Medical Center

Two Stars

• Cedar Park Regional Medical Center