The National Quality Forum’s Measure Applications Partnership has recommended the removal of 51 of the 240 quality measures used in seven federal programs. MAP is a public-private partnership that ...

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 ...

Over the years, with such large gaps in hospital safety and quality, many public and private payers have been pushing for greater hospital accountability through clinical quality measurement and ...

Rates of potentially preventable hospital admissions and readmissions, which were first envisioned as an indicator of access to timely and appropriate ambulatory care for uninsured patients more than ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

United Regional Health Care System in Wichita Falls has been named one of America's Best-In-State Hospitals for 2026 by ...

The World’s Best Hospitals 2025 report by Newsweek and Statista ranks over 2,400 hospitals across 30 countries to identify the top 250 that excel in medical care, research, and patient satisfaction.

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 ...

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 ...

Six St. Luke’s University Health Network hospitals — the most of any health network in the state — were honored by the ...