Nonprofit Group To Add Its Rankings To Crowded Field, By Anna Wilde Mathews: “The nonprofit Consumers Union is launching a new hospital-ratings service, adding to the growing competition to provide online consumer information about health care. The effort by the publisher of the popular Consumer Reports magazine is a gamble that the credibility of the magazine’s name and its no-advertising stance, identified with widely used ratings for cars and other products, can translate into the tricky field of health care, where doctors and other providers have objected to some evaluations proposed by insurers.”