Infographic of the Day: How Good Is Your Local Hospital?

This infographic by GE and Pentagram looks a hundreds of hospitals across the country, on 27 different performance metrics.

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Usually, you trust that your local hospital is a competent, well-run place where you can go to get skilled treatment. But this infographic, produced by GE and Lisa Strausfeld at Pentagram, punctures that myth with cold, hard data.

The data is taken from the Joint Commission, a non-profit that monitors the performance of 1,700 accredited hospitals. Their 2009 Annual...