Though, I have to comment on the HHS rankings….living in Los Angeles (I searched area code 90250), we have some of the best and worst hospitals and HHS does not accurately reflect patient care.

For example, Centinela Inglewood…I’m sure the fact they have a cath lab improves their rating…but they are over worked and you have higher chances of dying in triage or on the EMT’s gurney waiting for a bed than if you took a taxi to a nearby hospital.

Then hospitals that are so bad they are shut down have better rankings than ones we consider one of the best….comparing Torrance Memorial to MLK/Drew Med Center. Even if I were vomiting blood, I would call a taxi to Torrance Memorial over MLK/Drew…as they have had people die while vomiting blood in the lobby

NetDoc now as a mashup of Google Maps and HHS hospital data. As Shahid Shah says, these types of tools takes mountains of data and makes it more accessible and easier to digest by the average public health consumer. Here is the view/data of hospitals t…