Consumers who want to give their health care providers a “check up” can easily do so with a new resource accessible in minutes.

Quality Check, a Web-based database of thousands of health care providers, lists their accreditation status, latest performance report and accreditation history, including a summary of how each facility measures up to its competitors. All of the facilities listed on the Web site have been pre-screened by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, which created the service.

Quality Check provides the public with useful information to compare hospitals, nursing homes, home care agencies, behavioral health facilities, laboratories, assisted living communities and ambulatory care clinics based on four levels of care: heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and pregnancy-related conditions. Furthermore, users can easily see whether health care organizations meet national requirements for preventing medical accidents.

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