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Mortality and readmission rates are critical indicators of hospital quality. They show how well hospitals keep patients alive and healthy.
As many hospitals have struggled with a deluge of COVID-19 patients, which at times has prompted patients with other severe…
While there is rightfully much concern about the COVID-19 (aka coronavirus) becoming a pandemic (see Bara Vaida’s excellent tip sheet…
For the past several years, health care journalists have correctly focused on the rising rate of pregnancy-related mortality in the…
In a report late last year, the Commonwealth Fund included two statistics about women’s health that were particularly startling. In…
Rebecca Dineen, assistant commissioner for the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health at the Baltimore City Health Department, will be…
While measles may be the hot topic in the news at the moment for children’s health, it’s far from the…
One of the problems with the fee-for-service payment system is that it’s a flawed method of payment for sick patients…
Giles Bruce, who covers health for the Times of Northwest Indiana, did deep reporting into infant mortality in Indiana, work…