Quality and Safety

The selected hospitals are spread across 28 states, with California scoring the highest with 21 top hospitals.

Denham allegedly solicited and accepted monthly payments from CareFusion Corp., maker of the antiseptic ChloraPrep, while serving as co-chairman of a National Quality Forum committee in 2009 and 2010.

Nina Pham alleges the hospital knew of the impending medical crisis yet failed to provide training and proper equipment, including protective gear, to treat Ebola patients.

Federal overseers have seldom penalized the healthcare organizations responsible for safeguarding this data, a ProPublica review shows.

A recently unsealed federal lawsuit alleges hospital owner HCA Holdings subjected patients to medically unnecessary, invasive and high-risk cardiology procedures for years and then submitted false medical claims for federal reimbursement, according to court documents.

Bacteria caused 453,000 infections in 2011 and was associated with 29,000 deaths according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study.

Some Kaiser patients still have to wait weeks or even months to see a therapist or psychiatrist, which violates state laws intended to ensure timely access to mental health treatment.

Single safety incident caused the issue that could present major risk to patients.

Patients' assessments of the quality of the clinical care they received did not improve any more than they did for patients treated in older facilities.

The HHS grants were doled out across all 50 states, with separate amounts earmarked for major metropolitan areas in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.