By Associated Press
Albany, NY – The state Health Department launched a Web site Thursday that will allow patients across New York to check how their local hospitals performed on a number of surgical procedures and other treatments.
The department is rating hospitals in such areas as the treatment of heart attacks and the prevention of surgical infections.
The establishment of the Web site comes nearly a decade after a law was passed requiring the state to do so. Critics have long said the Health Department should expand its reporting of hospital procedures.
For more information, check out the State Health Department web site.