Henry Powderly
Vermont led the country with 83 percent of hospitals earning 'A' grades while Maine and Rhode Island both came in second with 62.5 percent of hospitals earning top grades.
Nearly 800 hospitals earned the highest marks for safety in the Spring 2016 release of the Leapfrog Group's Hospital Safety Score, and report organizers say about 33,000 lives could be saved annually if every hospital performed that well.
The Leapfrog Group on Monday released its latest Hospital Safety Score rankings, assigning 15 hospitals with flunking grades for their record of incidents of patient harm and preventable death.
The Leapfrog Group on Monday released its latest Hospital Safety Score rankings, awarding 798 hospitals with top grades for their record of low incidents of patient harm and preventable death.
Almost every services sector of the U.S. healthcare industry saw higher levels of merger and acquisition activity in 2015, according to a new report by Irving Levin Associates.
Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services acting administrator Andy Slavitt to delay releasing the latest quarterly Hospital Compare rankings over concerns that the methodology used to rate hospitals fails to account for a patient pool's social and income-level standings.
Rite Aid earned nearly $166 million and opened 23 health clinics in 2015, the company announced in what may be its last full-year earnings report before its scheduled takeover by Walgreens.
New Jersey-based Hackensack University Medical Center has struck a deal with popular taxi service Uber to provide and help pay for transportation for its patients, staff and visitors.
Montefiore Health System this week rolled out a new branding slogan it hopes will draw attention to the system's legacy in the metro New York area.
CareCredit-backed survey found 44 percent of those asked were not aware of financing options.