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Rankings and Ratings

NorthShore University HealthSystem Evanston (Ill.) Hospital.NorthShore Evanston Hospital opened in 1891 and remains NorthShore University HealthSystem’s flagship facility. The 354-bed hospital is a Level I trauma center and includes the Kellogg Cancer Center and a cardiovascular care center. NorthShore has…

The U.S. has made several strides in terms of senior health, like decreasing readmissions, preventable hospitalizations and hospital deaths, but challenges still remain, such as obesity rates and food insecurity, according to the 2017 "America's Health Rankings Senior Report" from…

CMS assigns hospitals two major star ratings: the HCAHPS summary star rating, based exclusively on patient survey scores; and the Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating, which incorporates outcomes measures as well as patient experience scores.

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Truven Health Analytics, a healthcare data and analytics solutions provider, has released its ninth annual list of the nation's 15 top health systems.

There are 338,620 employed physicians and surgeons in the United States, according to data from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics collected in May 2016. The data includes physicians employed in a variety of organizations, not just hospitals and health…

The Leapfrog Group has been assigning letter grades to hospitals based on their patient safety performance twice a year since spring 2012, and 63 hospitals have earned an A in every update, including the spring 2017 update released Wednesday.

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