# CMS Care Compare Hospital General Information (overall star rating per CCN)

`medicare_silver.dim_hospital_quality` · Hospital price transparency · status live · 5,432 rows

The compact hospital quality summary from CMS Care Compare "Hospital General Information": one row per CCN with the headline overall star rating (1-5), hospital type, ownership, emergency-services flag, and birthing-friendly designation. The quality spine; per-measure detail lives in fact_hospital_quality_measure.

**Grain.** One row per Medicare-certified hospital (by CCN) — overall star rating + type + ownership.

| column | type | meaning |
|---|---|---|
| ccn | string |  |
| facility_name | string |  |
| city | string |  |
| state_cd | string |  |
| zip_cd | string |  |
| county_parish | string |  |
| hospital_type | string |  |
| hospital_ownership | string |  |
| emergency_services | boolean |  |
| birthing_friendly | string |  |
| overall_rating | int |  |
| overall_rating_footnote | string |  |
| observed_period | date |  |
| asserted_at | date |  |
| effective_period_start | date |  |
| effective_period_end | date |  |
| cms_vintage_sequence | int |  |
| parse_revision | int |  |
| parser_artifact_hash | string |  |
| source_url | string |  |
| sha256_content_hash | string |  |
| source_id | string |  |
| is_current | boolean |  |
| bronze_object_key | string |  |
| s3_version_id | string |  |
| vintage_tag | string |  |
| drug_source_version_id | string |  |
| latitude | double |  |
| longitude | double |  |

Tools that read it: get_hospital_quality

Query it: `query_substrate` with `SELECT ... FROM medicare_silver.dim_hospital_quality WHERE ... LIMIT 100`; read `describe_data_source("medicare_silver.dim_hospital_quality")` first.