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Purpose-built for national hospital ranking surveys

Stop managing surveys. Start earning shields.

Shield Tracker gives your leadership team complete visibility into ranking performance, gap analysis, and improvement progress across every service line — so you can focus on the recognition your work deserves, not the paperwork behind it.

Rankings Overview
Service Lines
Endocrinology
Cardiology
Urology
Cancer
Neurology
Management
Gap Analysis
Improvements
8 🛡
Shields Earned
+3
vs. Last Year
92%
Survey Complete
5
Active Improvements
🛡
Endocrinology
#12▲ 8
🛡
Cardiology & Heart Surgery
#18▲ 14
🛡
Urology
#31▲ 6
Neurology & Neurosurgery
#54▼ 3
One platform for the entire ranking lifecycle
12
Service lines, one dashboard
100%
Submission accuracy — zero gaps
365
Days of improvement tracking
10yr
Historical ranking data built in
Try It Now — Interactive Preview

See how 10 years of ranking data comes to life

This is one of the first things executives ask for — where do we stand, and how have we trended? Explore real ranking data for 10 featured organizations across every specialty. With the full platform, you'll see your own hospital alongside peer comparisons, side by side.

  • Small multiples — sparkline cards for every specialty with zoom-to-detail
  • Bump chart — animated trajectory lines showing rank movement over time
  • Heatmap — color-coded matrix with sortable columns and row highlighting
  • With Shield Tracker — your organization plus side-by-side peer comparisons
Try the Rankings Explorer Interactive
Feature Preview — Real Data
Small Multiples Bump Chart Heatmap
Gastroenterology
#28▲ 14
Cardiology
#44▼ 18
Neonatal
#62▼ 21
Cancer
#56▼ 32
10 featured organizations · Every specialty · 10 years of real data →
The Real Cost

Great care deserves to be recognized — don't let process gaps get in the way

Most hospitals manage their ranking survey submissions through a patchwork of Excel files, shared drives, and email threads. The result isn't just disorganization — it's missed data, late submissions, and improvement opportunities that disappear between survey cycles.

  • Version control chaos — which spreadsheet is the latest?
  • No visibility into completion status until deadline pressure mounts
  • Year-over-year comparison requires manual data lookups
  • Review and approval happens over email — no audit trail
  • Improvement commitments vanish between survey cycles
Endocrinology_Survey_FINAL_v7.xlsx
3 weeks overdue
RE: RE: FW: Cardiology Section C data?
Data scattered in 4 threads
Rankings 2025 / Reviews / Final??
2 approvals missing
The Shield Tracker Difference

From reactive scramble to earned recognition

The difference between hoping for rankings and earning them comes down to what happens in the 11 months between surveys.

Without Shield Tracker
Survey data scattered across spreadsheets
No single view of progress across service lines
Improvement plans forgotten after submission
Year-over-year trends manually assembled
Gaps discovered on ranking day, not before
Leadership gets a report — not a strategy
vs
With Shield Tracker
Every answer in one structured platform
Real-time dashboard across all 12 service lines
Improvement plans tracked year-round
Automatic year-over-year comparison
Gap analysis identifies opportunities early
Leadership sees a roadmap to more shields

Shield Tracker doesn't just organize your survey. It turns your ranking data into a year-round improvement engine — so every cycle, you're building on what you learned, not starting over.

See It In Action

One platform, from first question to final ranking

Walk through how Shield Tracker manages every step — from first keystroke to improvement tracking and beyond.

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Dashboard
Service Lines
Endocrinology
Cardiology
Urology
Management
Review
Analytics
Survey Dashboard
12
Service Lines
67%
Completion
3
Pending Review
6
Currently Ranked
Endocrinology
85%
Cardiology & Heart Surgery
72%
Urology
45%
Neurology & Neurosurgery
92%
Endocrinology — Section C
C1.0 Chief of Service / Division Head
C1.1 Total inpatient discharges
2026
2025
2,614
2024
2,390
All changes saved
Review & Approval
Setup
Data Entry
Review
Submit
KW
Dr. Karen Wilson · SL Lead
Approved
RC
Robert Chen · Quality Dir.
Pending
SM
Sarah Mitchell · Org Admin
Pending
Year-Over-Year Trending
ENDO
CARD
URO
NEURO
ONCO
Active Improvement Plans
Increase nurse certification — Urology (Due Mar 15)
Document EHR integration — Neuro (Due Apr 1)
ICU staffing ratio improvement — Cardiology (Complete)
What Changes

Everything your organization needs to earn the recognition it deserves

From first data entry to final submission and year-round improvement — Shield Tracker manages the entire ranking lifecycle.

Zero Gaps Across Every Service Line

17+ question types mirror the exact ranking survey structure. Auto-save on every keystroke means no data is ever lost, and every field is accounted for across all 12 specialties.

Every Approval Tracked, Nothing Slips

Phase-gated progression from Setup through Submission with role-based access. Your quality director, service line leads, and executive reviewers all sign off in one place — with a full audit trail.

Instant Context on Every Data Point

Current and prior-year responses shown side-by-side on every question. Contributors see trends immediately — no hunting through last year's spreadsheets for comparison.

See Exactly Where to Improve

Multi-year performance dashboards reveal patterns across service lines. Identify declines before they become drops, and prioritize improvement efforts where they'll have the most impact on rankings.

Turn Insights Into Ranking Gains

Create structured improvement plans with owners, milestones, and deadlines that persist between survey cycles. Walk into next year's survey with a clear record of what you committed to — and what you accomplished.

Board-Ready Visibility in One Click

Generate executive summary dashboards, submission-ready exports, and board presentation data instantly. Leadership gets strategic insight without wading through raw survey data.

Year-Round Platform

Shield Tracker covers every phase of the ranking cycle

Most tools only handle submission season. Shield Tracker supports the entire year — because shields are earned in the months between surveys.

Questions Released

Survey structure loaded automatically

Data Gathered

Teams enter responses by service line

Reviewed & Approved

Multi-stage sign-off with audit trail

Submitted

Locked, documented, submission-ready

Improve & Close Gaps

Year-round action plans with tracking

Results & Rankings

Analyze results, plan next cycle

We were drowning in spreadsheets every survey cycle. Shield Tracker gave us a single source of truth and cut our submission preparation time by more than half. Now our leadership team can actually see where we stand — and where we're going.

Dr. Vinay Vaidya Chief Medical Information Officer Phoenix Children’s Hospital
Transparent Pricing

One plan. Every specialty covered.

No per-user fees. No feature gating. Full platform access for your entire organization.

Per Specialty
$4,995 / specialty / year

All 12 ranked specialties included with every subscription — each with its own workspace, review workflow, and year-over-year analytics.

Less than the cost of a single FTE-month spent managing spreadsheets — and it covers every service line, all year.

$59,940 per year per organization · unlimited users

  • All 12 ranked service lines
  • All 17+ ranking survey question types
  • Auto-save & year-over-year comparison
  • Multi-stage review & approval workflow
  • Multi-year trending & gap analysis
  • Improvement plan management
  • Executive summary dashboards
  • PDF & Excel export
  • Unlimited users & role-based access
  • White-glove onboarding & priority support
HIPAA Compliant Azure Hosted Dedicated CSM BAA Included
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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions from quality leaders evaluating Shield Tracker.

Shield Tracker includes 17+ specialized question renderers that mirror the exact structure of the national hospital ranking survey — contact information forms, numeric tables, percentage splits, yes/no matrices, multi-column data tables, file uploads, and more. Each question type is purpose-built to match what the survey expects, eliminating the translation errors that happen with generic survey tools or spreadsheets.
Yes. Shield Tracker uses role-based access control with four distinct roles: Data Contributor, Service Line Lead, Executive Viewer, and Organization Admin. Each service line has its own workspace, so Endocrinology and Cardiology teams can work independently with their own progress tracking, review workflows, and approval chains.
All data persists across survey years. When a new cycle begins, Shield Tracker automatically carries forward prior-year responses as reference data, making year-over-year comparison seamless. Improvement plans, action items, and historical trends are preserved so your team has full context for each new submission without starting from scratch.
Yes. Shield Tracker is hosted on Microsoft Azure with enterprise-grade security: encryption at rest and in transit, role-based access controls, comprehensive audit logging, and network isolation. We execute Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) with all customers and maintain SOC 2 readiness.
Most organizations are fully onboarded in 2–4 weeks. Our white-glove implementation includes configuring your service lines, importing historical survey data, setting up user accounts and roles, and a hands-on training session. We time implementations to align with your survey cycle.
Yes. Shield Tracker supports both the adult and children's hospital ranking survey structures. The pediatric survey has its own methodology — our platform handles both, and organizations can run them side by side within a single instance.
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  • 30-minute personalized walkthrough
  • See your service lines in the platform
  • Review your historical ranking trends
  • No commitment required
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