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Hospital death rates were closely guarded secrets, but that changed when the government’s best estimates of heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia death rates for every U.S. hospital for 2005 - 2007 became available online. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) posted its new mortality estimates at http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov, along with more than two dozen other measures of how well hospitals meet patients’ needs. Death rates from heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia are widely viewed as yardsticks of a hospital’s overall performance. Here is a list of the facilities with the highest and lowest death rates compared to the national rate over the past two years.

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