When it comes to treating heart attacks, pneumonia, surgery and other emergencies, you want to find the best medical care available.

To help you make these decisions, visit the NetDoc.com Hospital Ratings tool and enter your ZIP code to see how hospitals in your neighborhood rank on benchmarks set out by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in four categories: Heart Attack, Heart Failure, Pneumonia and Surgical Care Improvement/Surgical Infection Prevention.

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• Would you go to a hospital that gets infection prevention right only 50 percent of the time?
• When you come to the emergency room with pneumonia, does your hospital follow the right steps to treat you?
• When you rush to the emergency room with a heart attack, does your hospital give you the right medicines right away?

A surprising number of hospitals don’t get it right.

That’s why NetDoc.com’s Hospital Ranking Tool makes it easy for consumers to get the information they need to make their health-care decisions. Hospitals are plotted on a GoogleMap and color-coded for quick reference.

NetDoc.com is an informational website for health-care professionals and consumers. Its focus is on new technologies in the medical fields and fundamental patient-care issues.

For more information see the Hospital Rankings FAQ. 

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