Interesting that there is already a web sites that does this...but I guess the money will be spent to reach the 1/5 of the country that has never emailed or created any type of a document online...and not all hospitals have responded....$1.9 million for hospital ratings advertising? In my opinion, the money could have been spent in other areas versus paper ads that will be outdated the moment they are printed....BD 
WASHINGTON - The federal government is spending nearly $1.9 million on newspaper ads around the country that disclose hospital satisfaction rates, part of a unique campaign to improve health care through the power of publicity.
The full-page ads will show for better or worse how patients rated more than 2,500 hospitals nationwide.
The ads feature two questions: The percentage of patients who always got help when they needed it. And the percentage of patients who got antibiotics one hour before surgery. The latter question reflects broad interest in curbing infections acquired at the hospital. Overall, there are 26 measurements of quality of care on the government's Web site.
Government ads to reveal hospital ratings - Health care- msnbc.com
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