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VA hospitals in Connecticut

The Department of Veterans Affairs runs 1 hospital in Connecticut that CMS lists. CMS rated it for .

For context, CMS rated 26 hospitals of every kind in Connecticut, VA included, from the same file.

VA hospitals CMS lists
1
Rated by CMS
1
At 5 stars
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Moved since
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Star ratings in Connecticut: VA hospitals and all hospitals

A chart of the figures in the table that follows.

Star ratings in Connecticut: the number of VA hospitals and of all rated hospitals at each CMS star level
CMS starsVA hospitalsAll rated hospitals
5 stars04
4 stars08
3 stars19
2 stars05
1 star00

Source: CMS Hospital General Information (dataset xubh-q36u), released .

A star is CMS's summary of up to five groups of measures, not a ranking of every hospital against every other. How the star rating works.

Every VA hospital in Connecticut

Ordered by CMS star rating, then by name; hospitals with the same rating share a rank. Select a column heading to sort. How ranks are set.

VA hospitals in ConnecticutER median is CMS measure OP-18b, which leaves out patients transferred to another facility and mental health patients. CMS measurement periods: Would definitely recommend, to ; ER median, to .Each row's four small tiles are its CMS stars for , , and .
CMS stars, to to to
West Haven VA Medical Center West HavenState rank 13 of 5
  1. : 4 stars
  2. : 3 stars
  3. : 3 stars
  4. : 3 stars
Same as 376%233 low-volume ED

Connecticut figures CMS publishes, for comparison

Each hospital page compares its numbers with these; CMS's footnotes are quoted under the table.

Connecticut figures CMS publishes for comparison with its VA hospitals
MeasureConnecticutPeriod
Would definitely recommend the hospital68% (footnote 21) to
Rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 1066% (footnote 21) to
Nurses always communicated well78% (footnote 21) to
Median time in the emergency department before leaving, excluding transferred and mental health patients192 minutes (footnotes 25, 26) to
Left the emergency department before being seen2% (footnotes 25, 26) to
Severe sepsis and septic shock care that met every step57% (footnotes 25, 26) to
Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), ICU and select wards0.445 to
Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), ICU and select wards0.272 to
  • CMS footnote 21: Patient survey results for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospitals do not represent official HCAHPS results and are not included in state and national averages.
  • CMS footnote 25: State and national averages include Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospital data.
  • CMS footnote 26: State and national averages include Department of Defense (DoD) hospital data.

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