A Golden, Colo., company that has established a Web site ranking hospitals, includes Muskogee Regional Medical Center, which was given mixed results, depending on the category.

HealthGrades.com includes free and paid information. Data for this article is from the free side of the site. The site organizes its free data by treatment or disease.

Mary Martin, 59, said her decisions in choosing a hospital would be influenced by this type of rankings but also by her personal physician.

“If I’m going to Dr. Robison for example, and I really trust him, and he is affiliated with the local hospital, then I would probably go there,” she said.

However, Martin felt strongly that there may be generational differences in whose decision-making is influenced by a Web site.

“I have an older neighbor who doesn’t use the Internet, and she is more likely to go and talk to someone down the street to get their opinion,” she said.

Rankings include:

• In the back and neck surgery category (except spinal fusion): MRMC and Saint John Medical Center in Tulsa rated one star. Hillcrest Medical Center rated five stars; and Tulsa Spine and Specialty Hospital, Oklahoma Surgical Hospital, Southcrest Hospital and Saint Francis Hospital Inc. rated three stars.

• In the bowel obstruction category (survival): MRMrated three stars, along with Seminole Medical Center, McAlester Regional Health Center, Jane Phillips Medical Center and Eastern Oklahoma Medical Center.

• In the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease category, MRMC rated three stars for survival and one star for recovery, along with Integris Grove General Hospital and Holdenville General Hospital. Seventeen eastern Oklahoma hospitals rated three stars for both survival and recovery.

• In gastrointestinal surgeries and procedures, MRMC rated three stars, as did the other nine hospitals listed in that category.

• In the heart attack category, MRMC rated three stars for survival, as did Integris Baptist Regional Health Center and Haskell County Hospital.

• In the hip fracture repair category, MRMC and Claremore Regional Hospital ranked a single star each. All other 13 eastern Oklahoma hospitals rated three stars.

• In the stroke category, MRMC rated three stars for both survival and recovery. Haskell County Hospital, Eastern Oklahoma Medical Center, Tahlequah City Hospital, Integris Grove General Hospital rated one star each.