Healthgrades announced the top 20 cities with the lowest average risk-adjusted in-hospital mortality rates across 16 conditions and procedures based on 2005-to-2011 data in its report, "America's Best Hospitals 2013: Navigating Variability in Hospital Quality."

Healthgrades has announced its annual "America's Best Hospitals" 2013, which recognizes hospitals demonstrating clinical excellence over several years.

Including both commercial and Medicare accountable care organizations, there are 428 total organizations in 49 states as of January, according to a Health Affairs blog entry by David Muhlestein, an analyst with Leavitt Partners.

Just 32 percent of the nation's pre-med students plan to become primary care physicians after earning their medical degrees, according to a recent Kaplan Test Prep survey.

Effective March 1, Mercy, the 32-hospital system based in Chesterfield, Mo., and Hermann (Mo.) Area District Hospital will enhance physician collaboration to better treat critically ill patients in central Missouri.

Teaching hospitals in Illinois could face a reduction of medical students training in their facilities beginning in July if the state does not resolve delays in processing temporary licenses, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.

Hospital admission rates from the emergency department varied significantly among emergency physicians and hospitals in a single health system, according to a study in Annals of Emergency Medicine.

In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor; Jeffrey Flier, MD, the dean of faculty medicine at Harvard University and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School; and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, a senior research fellow…

While some improvements have been made, the healthcare industry cannot afford to relax on patient safety or quality, according to Paul Levy, former CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, in a recent blog post from Not Running…

The Arnold P. Gold Foundation announced that the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution designating Feb. 14, 2013 as National Solidarity Day for Compassionate Patient Care.