Ranked #12 in
Maryland
Ranked
#11 in
Baltimore metro area
Howard County General Hospital is a general medical and surgical hospital in Columbia, MD. It performed nearly at the level of nationally ranked U.S. News Best Hospitals in 8 adult specialties, as shown below. It scored high in patient safety, demonstrating commitment to reducing accidents and medical mistakes. Howard County General Hospital has 234 beds. The hospital had 15,533 admissions in the latest year for which data are available. It performed 3,671 annual inpatient and 8,969 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency room had 75,602 visits.
Adult Specialties
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High-Performing |
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Patient Satisfaction
Under a federal program, most U.S. hospitals now sample recently discharged patients and ask them about their stay. In a year's worth of surveys, here's how this hospital's patients responded to a key question, along with averages within the state and nationally.
Whether patients would recommend the hospital to friends and family:
| Definitely |
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76%
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| State Average |
67%
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| National Average |
70%
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| Probably or definitely not |
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3%
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| State Average |
6%
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| National Average |
5%
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See complete patient satisfaction survey results
Details
For more about this hospital, see hospital details. The information shown is provided by the American Hospital Association, which compiles data on all U.S. hospitals through an annual survey and from other sources. Hospital ownership, number of doctors and nurses, volume of births and ER visits, and available services such as sports medicine are just a few examples of data collected by the AHA. Find out more at www.ahadata.com.
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