GRAPHIC: Safest Local Hospitals

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Consumer Reports released its ratings Thursday, looking at five categories in rating patient safety: mortality, re-admissions, overuse of CT scans, hospital-acquired infections and communication. Here are the scores for local hospitals that were rated:

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