In a three-page letter delivered to Pres. Obama, 25 national healthcare, civil rights and legal organizations urged the president to address growing health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities.

The Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the availability of $50 million in Recovery Act funds to hospitals and surgery centers to help fight healthcare associated infections (HAIs) and improve patient safety at a speech before…

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released a report examining access to healthcare for rural Americans, according to an HHS news release.

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.