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Health Grades Inc. (HGRD)At 12:24PM ET: 4.3134  Down 0.0166 (0.38%)  
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Health Grades Inc.
500 Golden Ridge Road
Suite 100
Golden, CO 80401
United States - Map
Phone: 303-716-0041
Fax: 303-716-1298
Web Site: http://www.healthgrades.com

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Index Membership:N/A
Sector:Technology
Industry:Internet Information Providers
Full Time Employees:184

BUSINESS SUMMARY 
Health Grades, Inc. provides proprietary objective healthcare provider ratings and advisory services in the United States. Its ratings address hospitals, nursing homes, and home health agencies. The company offers healthcare information, including information relating to quality of service, as well as profile information on physicians that enables clients to measure, assess, enhance, and market healthcare quality. It also provides physician-led quality improvement consulting engagements, and other quality improvement analysis and services for hospitals. In addition, the company offers the Connecting Point program under which a physician, hospital, hospital system, or single specialty provider can sponsor applicable physician profiles. Further, it provides programs that offer business development tools and marketing assistance for hospitals; and offers online healthcare quality information for employers, benefits consulting firms, payers, and other organizations that license its Health Management Suite of products, which include Hospital Quality Guide, Physician Quality Guide, Nursing Home Quality Guide, Home Health Quality Guide, Treatment Cost Calculator, Medication Cost Calculator, health risk assessment, personal health record, and medical library. The company’s programs cover various clinical service lines, such as cardiac, orthopedics, vascular, pulmonary, neurosciences, gastrointestinal, critical care, general surgery, bariatric surgery, prostate surgery, maternity care, and women’s health. Its customers also include insurance companies, advertisers, media, and Web portals. As of December 31, 2008, Health Grades provided ratings or profile information relating to approximately 5,900 hospitals, 750,000 physicians in 125 specialties, and 15,000 nursing homes. The company was formerly known as Healthgrades.com, Inc. and changed its name to Health Grades, Inc. in November 2000. Health Grades was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Golden, Colorado.
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    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 
    Health Grades Inc.'s Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ®) as of 1-Jul-09 is better than 94.6% of CGQ Universe companies and 76.3% of Health Care Equipment & Services companies.
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    KEY EXECUTIVES 
     PayExercised
    Mr. Kerry R. Hicks , 49
    Co-Founder, Chairman, Chief Exec. Officer and Pres
    N/A N/A
    Mr. G. Allen Dodge , 41
    Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer, Exec. VP, Sec. and Treasurer
    $ 255.00K $ 38.00K
    Mr. David G. Hicks , 51
    Exec. VP of Information Technology
    $ 261.00K $ 479.00K
    Dr. Steven D. Wood Ph.D., 65
    Exec. VP
    $ 254.00KN/A
    Ms. Sarah Loughran , 44
    VP of Product Devel.
    $ 261.00K $ 1.16M
    Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-08 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year.
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