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California Releases Report on the Performance of Cardiac Surgeons
Measuring Your Health Plan, Hospital or Medical Group
- HMO Quality Report Card
- For ratings on doctors, health plans, hospitals and medical groups visit Pacific Business Group on Health's (PBGH) Healthscope
- At Healthgrades:
- Find doctors: credentialing, disciplinary action, education and trainings
- Find hospitals: survival, complication, and recovery ratings
- Find nursing homes: state inspection reports, investigated complaints
- At Hospital Compare: compare hospital care for certain medical conditions
- At Cal Hospital Compare: review California hospitals' performance by location, name, or medical condition.
Dispute Resolution Assistance
- Get help resolving claims disputes with your HMO, learn about your health plan rights, and find other independent information on managed care health plans and your health through California's Department of Managed Health Care
Measuring the Quality of America's Health Care
- National Committee for Quality Assurance
- Your Guide to Choosing Quality Health Care (PDF Format, 756KB)*
Other Health Resources
- Browse Mother Nature's Library
With the Natural Medicines Comprenhensive Database, you can find unbiased, scientifically reliable information about natural products and their uses, ingredients, and side effects. - WebMD
Find information on medications, health conditions, healthy living and more. - DrugWatch.com
Information is available on medications and their side effects and interactions with other medications or over-the-counter remedies. - Family Health Budget
Find tools to get a realistic picture of your own health care costs and much more.
Financial Calculators
- TIAA-CREF calculators
- Choose to Save Financial calculators - http://www.choosetosave.com/tools/fincalcs.htm
California Releases Report on the Performance of Cardiac Surgeons
- Do you or someone you love have coronary artery disease? Is a coronary bypass in your future? We sure hope not, but if you want to find out which hospitals and surgeons in San Diego have the best outcomes, review this Executive Summary before you go under the knife.
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