CMS Hospice Star Ratings
Many hospices lack CAHPS star ratings due to being new or small, but most patients are served by hospices with reliable, publicly reported scores, making the data a useful quality guide.
Ann Haas is a statistical analyst at RAND. She has experience working with large-scale complex-design survey data, including design, weight estimation, and analysis; hierarchical modeling; survival analysis; value-added analysis; and other types of modeling. Haas has worked with SAS, Stata, and R on both Windows and Linux platforms. She has worked primarily in the areas of health and education. Haas has an M.S. in biostatistics from the University of Michigan, an M.P.H. in epidemiology from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. in biology from the University of Michigan.
M.S. in biostatistics, University of Michigan; M.P.H. in epidemiology, University of Michigan; B.A. in biology, University of Michigan