Thanks. One of the points I was trying to make is that good hospitals sometimes taken in the very sick, so their patient population may be closer to death than those who go to community hospitals. The outcome for the hospitals with the more sickly patients will have a higher mortality than those with less sickly patients. Hope I’m making myself clear.
As an example, my son is an anesthesia technician at a private hospital for a medical school in Dallas. Some of the surgeries they do are not performed anywhere else in the world. The hospital’s mortality rate is bound to be higher than other facilities.
Neither of the two big “heart hospitals” in my area made the list.