Hospitals & Health Care Practitioners

Hospital Reporting Manual  (DOC)

Hospital Reporting Manual  (PDF)

Common Hospital Website Electronic Menu Style Sheet Files (ZIP)

The data used for these reports are extracts from administrative databases storing hospital inpatient discharge data primarily used for billing purposes. These records consist of patient demographics, diagnoses, and procedures, and additional medical information. Administrative data provide a convenient, inexpensive, rich source of data that can provide valuable information.

This technical guide was developed to provide more detail about Vermont’s public reporting of central line associated blood stream infection rates.
What is a Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI)?
The CDC defines a central line associated bloodstream infection is an infection in a patient that had a central line inserted within the 48-hour period before the onset of infection.
Who is required to report data?

This technical guide was developed to provide more detail about Vermont’s public
reporting of surgical site infections.
What surgeries have infection rates reported?

See what patients said about their experiences at Vermont hospitals. Click on the categories below to see survey results for the people who were discharged between July 2007 and June 2008:

(Need links to reports)

This technical guide was developed to provide more detail about Vermont’s public reporting of

Nursing Care Hours per Patient Day (NHPPD).

Nursing care hours per patient day: Refers to the number of nursing care hours relative to the

patient workload. This measure was developed by the American Nurses Association for the

National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI®). It is also endorsed by the National

Quality Forum in “National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Nursing-Sensitive Care: A Limited

Click on the facility name to go to that hospital's website for additional
hospital report card, community needs assessment, and other quality data.

Information about cost of care, cost shifting, comparing state averages, and hospital financial health. See also: