About half of Americans rely on the health care coverage they receive from their workplace. And while employers take their role in offering affordable, high-quality health benefits very seriously, ...

Before the pandemic, hospitals in the U.S. were making notable progress in the effort to address flagging patient safety and care quality metrics. And that effort paid off — adverse events and safety ...

A March 11 report from the Peterson Center on Healthcare and KFF tracks the performance of healthcare systems over the last few decades. The Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker measured ...

Home health agencies in Alabama, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina and Tennessee had an average patient care quality rating of 4 stars, the highest of all states, according to CMS data ...

Measures need to be taken to elevate engagement both from employees and the general public as public confidence in the US health care system declines. The US health care system faces declining levels ...

On the face of it, it may seem like the buzz around health equity is dying down. Less than a quarter of payer and health system executives cited health equity as a priority for 2025, a recent Deloitte ...

Hospital meals have long been the butt of jokes, but new research shows they might actually pose a health risk, with low-quality diets failing to meet basic nutrition standards in hospitals and ...

Over the past several decades, an appealing idea rapidly gained popularity: The government could advance a health care system that rewarded the quality of care rather than the volume of care. Medicare ...

The Health Insurance Disparities Index allows stakeholders to assess progress in addressing health care disparities using publicly available, validated, reported health plan quality metrics results.