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Illinois Hospital Report Card Adds New Information
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- An online tool that Illinois consumers can use to compare hospitals and surgical centers has added new information.

The Illinois Hospital Report Card launched in November. It now includes red, yellow and green icons on numerous safety measures.

Red means the hospital's performance was worse than the state or national average. Green means better. Yellow means no better or worse than average.

For instance, consumers can see whether their local hospitals are significantly better or worse than the state average on injuries to babies during birth. Patients can see how many times a foreign object such as a surgical sponge was left inside a patient's body during a procedure.

Data were updated through June 2009. The site will be routinely updated with the most recent data available.

On the Net:
www.healthcarereportcard.illinois.gov

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