Jordan Rau's stories have been published in The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and on npr.org and nbcnews.com, among other media outlets. He came to Kaiser Health News in 2009.
Medicare has begun publishing patient safety ratings for thousands of hospitals, but the latest data is intensifying objections from the hospital industry and some academic researchers that Medicare is using dubious and unfair measurements in ways that will hurt some hospitals.