Study: Good heart attack care could add a year to your life

Going to the right hospital for heart attack care could add a year to your life, a new study suggests.

Using Medicare records, researchers found that roughly 17 years after a heart attack, average life expectancy was 9 to 14 months longer for patients who had been treated at hospitals that do best on widely used quality measures than for those treated at low-rated ones.

Study: Good heart attack care could add a year to your life