The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority recently released its 2008 Annual Report, which examined participation in patient safety initiatives by healthcare facilities within the state, according to a PPSA news release.

A study by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project found that U.S. hospitals spent nearly $30.8 billion, approximately $1 of every $10 of total hospital expenditures, on potentially preventable conditions in 2006, according to…

A new study from Consumers Union, a nonprofit publisher of consumer reports, showed that while many hospitals have showed progress in certain areas of surgical infection prevention, almost 100,000 patients were left vulnerable to surgical site infection last year because…

A new study published in the Archives of Surgery showed that complication and morality rates were similar at centers designated as bariatric centers of excellence as compared with other hospitals, according to a report in Science Daily.

Private-sector health plans have developed many innovative techniques to reward physicians for doing good work and have improved treatment quality and patient safety, according to a news release from America's Health Insurance Plans.

First-quarter reports from many U.S. hospital chains show that amount of uninsured patients that hospitals are seeing remains stable to declining, according to a report in The Tennessean.

A new study from the Department of Health & Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found that complications from bariatric surgery declined 21 percent from 2002 to 2006, according to an AHRQ news release.

Here is a list of the 10 states with the highest percent change in the rate of uninsured children (0-18 years-old) in 2006-2007 compared to the average in 1994/95/96:

Here is a list of the top 12 states with the highest percent of uninsured children (0-18 years-old) from 2006-2007:

The National Quality Forum, the group that sets medical guidelines used by CMS to evaluate and reimburse medical facilities for services, has rejected a rule that would require a CT scan within 45 minutes of a stroke patient's arrival at…