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Comparison / hospitals / AL
Athens Limestone Hospital vs Birmingham Va Medical Center
7 measures are reported by both. Birmingham Va Medical Center is ahead on 5 of them.
“Ahead” means better on a measure whose direction the publishing agency states. Where the agency states no direction, neither column wins — a bigger number is not automatically a better one, and deciding otherwise here would be this site inventing a finding.
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Measure by measure
Both columns come from the same release of the same dataset, so the two are directly comparable.
| Measure | Athens Limestone Hospital | Birmingham Va Medical Center | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 2 | 4 | higher is better |
| Measures reported | 43 | 30 | higher is better |
| Measures better than national | 1 | 2 | higher is better |
| Measures worse than national | 3 | 0 | lower is better |
| Mortality measures better | 0 | 1 | higher is better |
| Safety measures better | 1 | 0 | higher is better |
| Readmission measures better | 0 | 1 | higher is better |
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