Welcome to the Nevada Hospital Association Transparency and Performance Page!

The Nevada Hospital Association and its member hospitals want to help you make informed decisions about your health care choices through the public reporting of quality performance measures and pricing. As such, we are committed to delivering information that is practical and useful, can play an important role in driving improvements in patient safety and quality and can help control health care costs.

We will continue to expand the quality measures, and we will do our best to streamline your searches for information. Additional links are also provided to give you access to many of the national and state agencies for additional data and information. We recognize our responsibility to you and we take this challenge very seriously. This transparency web site includes:

• Hospital Quality Measures, displaying Nevada hospitals’ performance in selected quality measures
• Nevada PricePoint, providing information on facility information about hospital charges for various services

Understanding Quality Performance Measures

This web site includes nationally recognized hospital performance measures from three difference sources. As you review the information included in this site, keep in mind that individuals have different needs and hospitals have different strengths. This website should be viewed as another source of information you can use to raise questions and should be used in conjunction with your physician’s or surgeon’s advice.

NHA Quality Performance Measures do:

• Help Nevadans learn more about health care.
• Make evidence-based health information publicly available and understandable.
• Assist hospitals in continuously improving their performance, and thereby, improving the overall quality of care provided to patients.
• Provide information that employers and insurers can use as they design benefit packages.

NHA Quality Performance Measures do not:

• Provide a comprehensive view of the overall health care picture in Nevada. NHA Quality Measures are one resource; many others are also available and should be considered before drawing conclusions about care at any one hospital.
• Take the place of conversations between the patient and provider. The importance of communicating with the physician, nurses, and other members of the health care team cannot be understated.
• Remain static. The data is refreshed at least every six months, and as hospitals continuously improve the quality and safety of their patient care, it is expected that the data will change.