A new Web site will allow consumers to review the performance of New York City’s public hospitals.

The data, which is available on the Health and Hospitals Corporation Web site, www.nyc.gov/hhc, is designed to help the public review how HHC and its 11 hospitals and four long-term care facilities compare to state and national benchmarks.

The information includes:

– Annual mortality rates for the entire system and for each of its hospitals;

– Adherence to “best practice treatment” for patients with heart attacks, heart failure, and pneumonia, as well as 30-day mortality rates for heart attacks and heart failure;

– Adherence to “best practice treatment” for prevention of surgical infection;

– Rates of ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated bloodstream infection for critically ill patients;

– Rates of falls, pressure ulcers, and effective pain management for long term care patients.

“While hospitals almost universally market themselves with slogans that tout the quality of their care, very few have actually been willing to share the data that might support those claims,” the president of HHC, Alan Aviles, said.

“By posting quality and safety information that is objective, understandable and timely, we are showing our willingness to be held publicly accountable for doing all that we can to provide reliable, effective health care and to keep our patients safe,” Mr. Aviles said.

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On the Net: www.nyc.gov/hhc