in Idaho, USA

What do the numbers of hospital in Idaho mean?

We are only looking at Acute Care and Critical Access Hospitals. There is one less hospital in Idaho than the previous year. Hospitals are rated on a scale of one to five, five being the highest rating. A hospitals rating can improve or decline based on patient surveys and other reported quality measures. Note that not all hospitals have a star rating.

Here is a breakdown of those hospital ratings:

There is one more hospital with a five star rating in Idaho than the previous year. How about hospitals with a four star ratings improved? There are 5 more hospitals with a 4 star rating which is higher than the previous year in Idaho.

Have the number of hospitals with 3 star ratings improved or declined?

The directory of Hospitals of the States and Territories was last updated 1/30/2020.

About Idaho

Idaho is a state in the northwestern region of the United States. It borders the state of Montana to the east and northeast, Wyoming to the east, Nevada and Utah to the south, and Washington and Oregon to the west. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canadian border with the province of British Columbia. With a population of approximately 1.7 million and an area of 83,569 square miles (216,440 km2), Idaho is the 14th largest, the 12th least populous and the 7th least densely populated of the 50 U.S. states. The state's capital and largest city is Boise.

Forming part of the Pacific Northwest (and the associated Cascadia bioregion), Idaho is divided into several distinct geographic and climatic regions. The state's north, the relatively isolated Idaho Panhandle, is closely linked with Eastern Washington with which it shares the Pacific Time Zone – the rest of the state uses the Mountain Time Zone. The state's south includes the Snake River Plain (which has most of the population and agricultural land). The state's south-east incorporates part of the Great Basin. Idaho is quite mountainous, and contains several stretches of the Rocky Mountains. The United States Forest Service holds about 38% of Idaho's land, the most of any state.

Industries significant for the state economy include manufacturing, agriculture, mining, forestry, and tourism. A number of science and technology firms are either headquartered in Idaho or have factories there, and the state also contains the Idaho National Laboratory, which is the country's largest Department of Energy facility. Idaho's agricultural sector supplies many products, but the state is best known for its potato crop, which comprises around one-third of the nationwide yield. The official state nickname is the "Gem State", which references Idaho's natural beauty.

Source: Wikipedia