It should not come as a surprise that hospitals vary in the quality of care that they provide. Consumers now have a new tool to enable them to discover the best hospitals for some of the most common hospital stays. “Hospital Compare” is a government initiative that provides access to the best estimates for every U.S. hospital for the last two years for some of the most widely accepted yardsticks of hospital performance, such as death rates for patients suffering heart attacks, heart failure or pneumonia, as well as certain surgical procedures such as heart bypass surgery, hernia operations, knee/ankle surgeries, or female reproductive procedures.

The law firm of Gamba & Lombana has helped many victims of inadequate and substandard care at hospitals statewide. We fully understand that all hospitals are not alike in the quality of care they render or those areas of specialty where they excel. We encourage anyone who is seeking medical care from hospitals to first visit the new Hospital Compare Web site to compare neighborhood hospitals to each other as well as to the country's best. Click here to visit the site.