Health Facilities

• Home Health Compare
  US Department of Health & Human Services
  Find and compare Medicare-certified home health agencies; detailed information on past performance; searchable by state and county.
• Massachusetts - Nursing Home Information for Consumers
  Massachusetts Department of Public Health
  See Survey Performance Tool for Nursing Homes for evaluations and comparisons of a particular home or all homes in a city/town.
• MedlinePlus: Health Facilities
  National Library of Medicine
  Links to directories and authoritative websites on health facilities.
• Nursing Home Compare
  US Department of Health and Human Services
  Find and compare Medicare/Medicaid-certified nursing homes; detailed information on past performance.

Hospitals - Local

• Tufts-Affiliated Hospitals
• Massachusetts Hospitals
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Brigham & Women's Hospital
• Boston Medical Center
• Children's Hospital
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• Forsyth Dental Clinic
• Massachusetts General Hospital
• UMass Memorial Medical Center

Hospitals - Nationwide

• America's Best Hospitals
  U.S. News & World Reports
  Hospital rankings
• American Hospital Directory
  Data for over 6,000 hospitals built from Medicare claims data, cost reports, and other public use files obtained from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project (HCUP)
  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
  HCUP databases contain a core set of clinical and nonclinical information found in a typical discharge abstract including all-listed diagnoses and procedures, discharge status, patient demographics, and charges for all patients.
• Hospital Compare
  US Department of Health & Human Services
  A consumer-oriented website that provides information on how well hospitals provide recommended care to their patients.
• Hospitalconnect.com
  American Hospital Association
  Healthcare news and resources, and portals to related communities
• HospitalWeb
  Massachusetts General Hospital
  Domestic and international hospitals web links
• Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, Inc.
  The Data Locator provides links to web resources answering specific data, i.e. numerical, questions regarding cost/expenditures of healthcare, incidence/prevalence of disease, drug costs, facilities, and healthcare workforce.
• National Hospital Discharge and Ambulatory Surgery Data
  National Center for Health Statistics
  Conducted annually since 1965, the survey provides information on characteristics of inpatients discharged from non-Federal short-stay hospitals in the US.
• Vimo - Comparison Shopping for Health
  Commercial site allowing visitors to research, rate, and purchase health insurance and health savings accounts, as well as peruse a hospital directory, which includes price comparisons of procedures.