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Find out more about our purpose, goals, and history.
CiteHealth is a health care ratings website for consumers to evaluate their health care providers quality in an effort to enable them to make informed decisions about medical care they may be receiving. We accomplish this by providing free reports on health care providers and communities and also by providing a vehicle for patients to convey their experiences and questions to one another. The information contained on each health provider comes from numerous government and commercial sources, direct contact, and from the user base. We currently cover hospitals, nursing homes, dialysis centers, home care agencies, rehabilitation centers, pharmacies, and medical providers.
The "CiteHealth" Difference
CiteHealth is different than our competitors, as we:
- Provide all information for free
- Display every relevant piece of data
- Compare attributes of each provider against other providers and locations
- Organize information so it's easy to use, access, and reference (i.e. no multiple pages, no logins, and no hurdles to get to the reports)
- Display information in a number of different formats (i.e. graphs, sentences, lists)
- Create indexes that intelligently combine key attributes
- Provide rich media content such as maps, pictures, audio, and more
- Deliver numerous tools to our users, all at no cost
- Allow mechanisms for community and sharing
- Let you give your feedback and take part in shaping the information
- We "partner with and help" and don't "sell to" the providers we cover
Giving Back
We feel very strongly in giving back to communities and being socially responsible. That is why we give 3% of our pre-tax profits to numerous charities that our user base is passionate about. At the end of each calendar year, we tally up all the user base charity selections and divide our donation funds based on these proportions. Our current approved charities are:
- American Cancer Society
- American Heart Association
- American Kidney Fund
- American Red Cross
- Arthritis Foundation
- Big Brothers of America
- Easter Seals
- Habitat for Humanity
- Humane Society
- March of Dimes
- Meals on Wheels
- United Way
- YMCA
In addition, we give each employee the opportunity to be paid to volunteer for local organizations two weeks out of every year.
Goals
Our primary goal is to provide consumers with free access to quality health care provider information. The idea is simple but when examining the current landscape of websites in this arena you will find:
- Sites giving a small amount of information and then wanting to charge for the rest
- Sites giving basic information away but putting up hurdles to getting it. These sites also do not provide insight but rather just the raw data.
- Sites built entirely for advertising revenue that give very little information
Observing the landscape as such, we felt the need to fill the "void" and correct as many of these issues as we could. We feel strongly that giving everyone access to this information benefits the greatest number of people as possible, including us as a company.
Ownership
CiteHealth is owned and operated by Open Data Systems, Inc which operates out of Brighton, Colorado. The concept for the website was conceived in late 2005. After acquiring the needed angel funding to pursue the idea, development began in the middle of 2007.
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If you represent a health care provider, government entity, library or university, we would like to support you. See our organization support page to see how we can help.
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