A new editorial published in JAMA by Northwestern Medicine ® experts strongly questions the use of several hospital quality measures by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in its ...

Although patients with a primary mental health condition make up about 10 percent of pediatric hospitalizations, there is little research exploring care quality for these patients in hospital settings ...

All hospitals were already participating in the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke program and providing excellent care.

As hospital performance on quality measures improves, so too does racial and ethnic equity in performance rates, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - How a hospital rates in terms of the quality of care it provides does not appear to be closely linked to patient outcomes, according to a study in this week's Journal of ...

A group of surgeons has proposed measuring how often hospitals discharge post-surgical patients to nursing homes as a way to rate quality. The goal would be to reduce post-acute admissions and save ...

CMS proposed new payment and quality reporting measures for 2026 on July 15. Here are CMS’ four proposals for the Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Reporting Program included in the policy release: 1 ...

It isn't news for anyone to suggest the most expensive hospitals may not be worth the money. A recent paper published in the journal Health Affairs, "Understanding Differences Between High- and ...

Accessing high-quality healthcare in the United States has become increasingly complex. While technological advances have fostered extraordinary innovation in medicine and digital record keeping, the ...

1. These are Forbes’ first-ever hospital ratings. Why is Forbes entering this space now? Healthcare quality can vary dramatically among hospitals. The differences between high-quality facilities and ...

Reviews of healthcare providers on social media sites like Yelp are filling gaps in traditional ratings programs driven by the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey, ...

More than a third of New Jersey's 79 hospitals have received two stars or less in the latest ratings from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Only four hospitals received five stars, the ...