PHOENIX -- Ever wonder which hospital to visit when faced with the need for significant medical care?

Patients with heart attack or failure, pneumonia or surgical infection might want to know what sort of treatment they'd receive at each hospital.

That information can be found on a Web site called Hospital Compare, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services along with states and medical staff.

The site allows visitors to choose which hospitals to compare. All Valley facilities are listed.

The Web site addresses surgical infection, heart attack or failure and pneumonia, and tells whether patients received certain medicines upon arrival and whether the hospital gave written discharge instructions.

The state of Arizona looks for some of those things by visiting hospitals; as a patient, Kathy McCanna of the Arizona Department of Health Services looks at the Hospital Compare Web site as well.

The information provided will help patients have more complete conversations with their doctors.

Click here to visit Hospital Compare.

The state of Arizona offers a similar Web site.