{"id":5255,"date":"2016-12-09T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T14:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5255"},"modified":"2016-12-09T09:30:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T14:30:59","slug":"va-hospital-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5255","title":{"rendered":"VA Hospital Ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Veterans Affairs has for years assigned star ratings to each of its hospitals but refused to make this important information public. In Donovan Slack\u2019s article on USA Today website, she makes public this information.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2016\/12\/07\/internal-report-details-secret-quality-ratings-veterans\/94811922\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=38990135&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8ZzigkcHyYomzaYEqcqMyn1dHMrKbw8seNeX7kEE6UtenKcQe9ytYucQpLRtSQA2oefuwFw8voeVdL6IJyRqP7ZD6y8g&amp;_hsmi=38990135\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Veterans Affairs has for years assigned star ratings to each of its hospitals but refused to make<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5256,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5255\/revisions\/5256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}