Top Rated Hospitals have 70% fewer deaths

As this article reports, patients that are treated in top rated hospitals have a 70% higher chance of surviving, than if they were to stay at hospitals with the lowest rankings. According to the study "HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America", 237,420 deaths of Medicare patients could have been avoided. The four most common reasons for death, in over have the patients included: sepsis, pneumonia, heart failure, and respiratory failure. The study was conducted using 41 million Medicare hospitalization records between the years of 2005-2007.