{
  "name": "hospital-quality-mcp",
  "title": "HealthMesh · Hospital Quality MCP",
  "version": "0.1.1",
  "description": "CMS Care Compare hospital quality, queried live from the CMS Provider Data Catalog: hospital search and overall star ratings, measure-level results (readmissions, mortality, complications, infections, HCAHPS patient survey, timely & effective care) with national comparisons and footnotes, value-based program results (HRRP, HAC Reduction, Hospital VBP) and side-by-side comparisons or state/national rankings on one measure.",
  "healthmesh_domain": "Quality & Risk",
  "datasets": [
    "QUAL-01",
    "QUAL-02"
  ],
  "mcp_endpoint": "https://hospital-quality.healthmesh.ai/mcp",
  "transport": "Streamable HTTP (stateless, JSON responses)",
  "authorization": "none",
  "auth_mode": "off",
  "docs": "https://github.com/HendrikK/healthmesh/tree/main/servers/hospital-quality-mcp#readme",
  "contact": "hendrik.kleine@gmail.com",
  "data_source": {
    "name": "CMS Care Compare hospital datasets (Provider Data Catalog DKAN datastore API): Hospital General Information, Unplanned Visits, Complications and Deaths, HAI, HCAHPS, Timely and Effective Care, HRRP, HAC Reduction, Hospital VBP",
    "url": "https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/topics/hospitals",
    "license": "U.S. Government work, public domain",
    "refresh": "live API (24 h edge cache); CMS refreshes hospital data quarterly"
  },
  "tools": [
    {
      "name": "hospq_search_hospitals",
      "title": "Search Care Compare hospitals",
      "description": "Searches CMS Hospital General Information (Care Compare, ~5,400 Medicare-certified hospitals) by name, city, state, ZIP, county, hospital type, ownership, emergency services, birthing-friendly designation and minimum overall star rating. Returns each hospital's CCN (facility_id, used by every other tool), address, type, ownership and overall star rating (1-5, or 'Not Available')."
    },
    {
      "name": "hospq_get_hospital_profile",
      "title": "Hospital star rating profile",
      "description": "Returns a hospital's Care Compare overall star rating (1-5) with the five measure groups behind it: for mortality, safety of care and readmission, the number of measures better / no different / worse than the national rate; for patient experience and timely & effective care, the measure counts (CMS publishes no better/worse counts for those two groups). Also returns address, type, ownership, emergency services and birthing-friendly status, with footnote texts."
    },
    {
      "name": "hospq_get_measures",
      "title": "Hospital measure-level results",
      "description": "Returns a hospital's measure-level Care Compare results for one topic, with the national value and CMS's 'compared to national' category where published, denominators, confidence limits, footnotes and measurement periods. Topics: readmissions (READM_30_AMI/HF/PN/COPD/CABG/HIP_KNEE rates, EDAC excess days, OP_32/35/36), mortality (MORT_30_*), complications (COMP_HIP_KNEE, PSI_03..PSI_90), infections (HAI_1..6 SIR + CI limits), hcahps (patient survey H_*), timely_effective (SEP_1 sepsis, OP_18 ED wait, IMM_3, eCQMs). Optional measure_id narrows to one measure."
    },
    {
      "name": "hospq_get_value_based_programs",
      "title": "HRRP, HAC Reduction and Hospital VBP results",
      "description": "Returns a hospital's CMS value-based program results for FY2026 (the latest year published): Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program excess readmission ratios by condition (AMI, HF, PN, COPD, CABG, hip/knee; ratio > 1 = more readmissions than expected), HAC Reduction Program (PSI-90, CLABSI/CAUTI/SSI/CDI/MRSA SIRs and Winsorized z-scores, total HAC score, whether the 1% payment reduction applies) and Hospital VBP domain and total performance scores."
    },
    {
      "name": "hospq_compare_hospitals",
      "title": "Compare or rank hospitals on one measure",
      "description": "Compares 2-20 hospitals (ccns) side by side on one measure, or ranks all hospitals in a state (or nationally) on one measure. measure_id can be a hospital field (hospital_overall_rating; HAC: total_hac_score, psi_90_composite_value, clabsi_sir, cauti_sir, ssi_sir, cdi_sir, mrsa_sir; VBP: total_performance_score or a domain score), an HRRP condition (READM-30-HF-HRRP, -AMI-, -PN-, -COPD-, -CABG-, -HIP-KNEE-; excess readmission ratio) or any Care Compare measure id (READM_30_HF, MORT_30_AMI, PSI_90, HAI_1_SIR, H_RECMND_LINEAR_SCORE, SEP_1, OP_18b...). Default order is best first where the direction is known. Every row also carries the hospital's current name, city, overall star rating and FY2026 HAC payment reduction flag."
    },
    {
      "name": "hospq_describe_dataset",
      "title": "Describe the hospital quality data",
      "description": "Lists the CMS Provider Data Catalog hospital datasets served (ids, row counts, last modified dates), the topics and measure-id families, program fiscal years, footnote handling and what is not covered."
    }
  ]
}