Hospital Quality & Access

Source

CMS Hospital Compare · vintage 2024 · refresh cadence: annual

Direction of better

Higher values are better. Used to rank candidate towns/properties; higher score = stronger fit.

Default weight in Health composite

25% of the Health composite by default. Users can override this weight in their intake; the displayed score reflects the user's chosen weighting, never a fixed default.

Where the data lives

Tables: health_hospitals, listing_infrastructure_proximity

Columns: nearest_hospital_dist_km,nearest_hospital_stars, nearest_hospital_dist_km,nearest_hospital_stars

Input field: nearestHospitalDistKm,nearestHospitalStars,hasTraumaCenter

JSON-LD example

Every value emitted by ValiFit (in /api/v1, MCP responses, on-page JSON-LD) carries a propertyID set to this metric_id, so AI clients can resolve it back here in one round-trip.

{
  "@type": "PropertyValue",
  "propertyID": "health.hospital_quality_access",
  "name": "Hospital Quality & Access",
  "value": "example",
  "additionalProperty": [
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "composite",
      "value": "Health"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "level",
      "value": "city"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "direction",
      "value": "higher_better"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "source_year",
      "value": "2024"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "fha_safe",
      "value": true
    }
  ],
  "valueReference": {
    "@type": "QuantitativeValue",
    "additionalType": "https://valifit.com/catalog/metric",
    "identifier": "health.hospital_quality_access",
    "sameAs": "CMS Hospital Compare"
  },
  "mentions": [
    {
      "@type": "Dataset",
      "@id": "https://valifit.com/sources/cms-hospital-quality",
      "identifier": "CMS_HOSPITAL",
      "name": "CMS Hospital Quality Compare",
      "url": "https://www.cms.gov/medicare/quality/initiatives/hospital-quality-initiative",
      "sameAs": "https://www.cms.gov/medicare/quality/initiatives/hospital-quality-initiative",
      "creator": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "CMS"
      },
      "temporalCoverage": "quarterly",
      "dateModified": "2026-04-01"
    }
  ]
}