Now you can find out if the taco place down the street is any good and check out the wait time at your local ER all on the same website. Yelp has partnered with ProPublica to give consumers quick access to information on healthcare facilities, according to a Washington Post article.
ProPublica is providing Yelp with data gathered from 4,600 hospitals, 15,000 nursing homes and 6,300 dialysis clinics, such as hospital emergency room average wait times, fines paid by nursing homes and how often people receiving dialysis treatment are readmitted to a hospital because of treatment-related infections or other problems. In return for providing this data, ProPublica will be given access the healthcare reviews posted by Yelpers for use in research for news stories, though they will not receive personal reviewer information other than what is already posted on the site.
Which much of the ProPublica data is already available on Medicare's Hospital Compare website, Yelp maintains that is presenting it in a more user-friendly format.
Currently, healthcare facilities only make up 6 percent of the businesses reviewed on Yelp. Yelp's executives hope that with the additional data posted, this number will increase.
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