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Hospital Quality Editorial Process · Editorial Process
PlainHospital, an independent data-journalism portal, specializes in analyzing hospital quality using data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide public insights into healthcare performance. The team produces content that is compiled by our editorial process for accuracy and clarity. Additionally, the team does not accept payment from entities it covers to ensure unbiased reporting.
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plainhospital is a data-journalism publisher: we render public datasets directly from their official sources through a documented pipeline and present them in plain language. Editorial standards, sourcing, and how we handle corrections are described on our about, editorial & corrections policy, and methodology pages.