CHI Health Good Samaritan Again Awarded 5 Stars By CMS
CHI Health Good Samaritan, for the second consecutive year, received the highest achievement possible from The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). On July 27, CMS updated its Care Compare website with new 2021 data for Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings. Good Samaritan was one of only six acute care hospitals in Nebraska, and the only acute care hospital west of Lincoln, to receive a five stars rating.
The Overall Star Ratings is designed to assist patients, consumers and others in comparing hospitals side-by-side. The more stars, the better the hospital performs on the quality measures including mortality, safety of care, readmission, patient experience and timely and effective care.
Other five-star CHI Health acute care hospitals include CHI Health Lakeside, Omaha and CHI Health Midlands, Papillion.
The update is the second since the agency overhauled the ratings’ methodology in 2020.