Most U.S. Hospitals Report Data on Quality
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More than 98 percent of U.S. hospitals  are now reporting quality-of-care data for treating heart  attack, heart failure and pneumonia, the Centers for Medicare  and Medicaid said on Thursday.
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Older patients with similar chronic conditions receive treatment that varies widely, even among the top-ranked hospitals, according to studies released Thursday that suggest more
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Around the United States, there are perplexing geographic variations in medical expenses and the quality of care.
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NEW YORK  - People treated at high-quality hospitals are more likely to survive and less likely to develop complications, according to a new report on more than 5,000 US hospitals.
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WASHINGTON -- Quality, not quantity, should be the federal government's guide in setting payments to doctors, hospitals and other healthcare providers, a report requested by Congress said yesterday.
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THURSDAY, June 21 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health officials have rated the nation's hospitals on their treatment of heart attack and heart failure and found that most meet the national average for quality of care.
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A US national database on children&#39;s hospitals can help reduce the length, cost and frequency of stays, says a University of Michigan study in the October issue of Pediatrics.
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NEW YORK  - Contrary to what might be expected, the quality of care that patients receive increases with the number of medical conditions they have, according to a report in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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For the first time in nearly two decades, the federal government has released a list of hospitals where heart patients are most likely to die.
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An annual report released Tuesday put Minnesota at the top of its health rankings for the fourth straight year, while concluding that the nation's health improved slightly.
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One in three hospital patients is unhappy with the quality of food they receive, a survey suggests.
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The quality of the health care provided to millions of Americans improved last year across several dozen categories, including increased immunization rates among insured children.
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Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital in March became the first institution in the U.S. to be audited for compliance with the security rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Here's what health officials wanted to know.
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The United States spends far more on   health care than any other country but gets only mediocre care   in return for its investment, according to a report released on   Wednesday.
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For-profit nursing homes and hospitals  on average provide an inferior quality of care compared with  their nonprofit peers, according to an extensive review of  studies published on Tuesday.
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In Sept. 21 NEW YORK story headlined &quot;Survey chides quality of 1 in 10 nursing homes&quot; please read in first paragraph ... inadequate quality in a survey of state inspection reports ... instead of ... consistently inadequate quality since the year 2000 .
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Fifty-three percent of Massachusetts hospitals lost money on operations during the first six months of fiscal 2004, according to a Massachusetts Hospital Association survey. The lobbying group, which surveys its members' financial health yearly, found that, on average, hospitals posted slight losses on operations, but more than made that up on investments and from philanthropy. Operating margins improved slightly from ...