About IPI
- The Informed Patient Institute (IPI) is an independent nonprofit organization that provides credible online information about health care quality and patient safety for consumers.
- IPI rates the usefulness of online health care report cards—starting with nursing homes and physicians.
- We don't rate individual health facilities or practitioners—but we'll tell you who does.
- IPI also advocates for making more—and more useful—health care quality information available to consumers.
How We Rate Sites
- IPI staff rates websites that provide performance information about health care providers and professionals.
- Sites are assigned a grade of “A” (outstanding) to “F” (not worth your time).
- Sites that have unique content are given a “U” for Unique.


