Eight hospitals have received the Vermont Oxford Network Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement for their work caring for infants. The award is given to VON member teams who demonstrate dedication to quality improvement and the organization’s core values, including…
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Two hospitals received the 2025 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s only presidential honor recognizing performance excellence. The award is based on the Baldrige Excellence Framework and administered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, according to a…
Massachusetts is the best U.S. state for women for the second consecutive year, according to a March 2 WalletHub ranking. The personal finance website’s 2026 list of the “Best & Worst States for Women” was compiled by comparing the 50…
According to data gathered by Becker’s, Parkland Health and Hospital System saw the highest number of emergency department visits in 2025. The figures below represent the number of visits at individual ED facilities, rather than the total visits across entire…
Six health systems were featured on Fortune and Korn Ferry’s 28th annual list of the World’s Most Admired Companies. The list, published Jan. 21, is based on surveys of executives, directors and financial analysts who rated companies on nine criteria,…
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The American hospital landscape is in constant motion. Fueled by demographic shifts, consolidation pressures and a post-pandemic push to expand capacity, many of the nation’s largest health systems are growing at a remarkable pace by adding patient towers, absorbing regional…
Among U.S. cities, the hardest-working Americans live in Cheyenne, Wyo., according to an analysis by personal finance website WalletHub. To determine the hardest-working cities, WalletHub compared 116 of the most populated cities across two dimensions, direct and indirect work factors.…
California has the most top-rated home health programs, according to U.S. News and World Report’s inaugural ranking. Three states and Washington, D.C., do not have any. U.S. News evaluated more than 12,000 Medicare-certified home health agencies across the country using…
The Lown Institute Hospitals Index named the top 10 hospitals for cost efficiency. The institute used clinical outcomes and cost Medicare fee-for-service claims for patients hospitalized from 2020 to 2022. The cost efficiency metric includes sub-metrics for 30- and 90-day…
The latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which ranks the world’s 500 richest people across industries, includes seven leaders from U.S. healthcare. The ranking reflects only those individuals who appear in Bloomberg’s Top 500 globally and does not capture every billionaire in…