U.S. News & World Report released its annual Best States rankings July 28, evaluating all 50 states on how they best serve their residents across eight categories: healthcare, education, economy, infrastructure, opportunity, fiscal stability, crime and corrections, and natural environment.…
Rankings and Ratings
New Hampshire is the best state for healthcare while Alaska is the worst, according to an analysis published July 27 by WalletHub. The personal finance company compared the states and the District of Columbia across three dimensions: cost, access and…
Mass General Brigham programs swept research-output rankings across 11 specialties in Doximity’s residency program ratings, which score programs separately on reputation and research. Doximity builds its reputation score from three years of nomination surveys completed by board-certified physicians in each…
Becker’s compiled a list of the 183 hospitals that have a five-star rating in both nurse and physician communication. CMS shares 10 HCAHPS star ratings based on publicly reported Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems measures. The physician…
About 3.15 million American adults 65 and older move each year, and 19.7% moved across state lines, the Census Bureau found. The Census Bureau tracked migration patterns of older adults across county, state and regions between 2015 and 2019 —…
Advertisement
The Ralph H. Johnson VA Health System in Charleston, S.C., is the 2026 recipient of the American Hospital Association’s Quest for Quality Prize, the AHA said July 9. Three health systems were named finalists: Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health, Hartford-based Connecticut…
Becker’s has compiled a list of the best hospitals for physician communication in each state using Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems data from CMS. CMS shares 10 HCAHPS star ratings based on publicly reported HCAHPS measures. The…
Americans spend the most on health insurance in West Virginia and the least in Maryland, according to a WalletHub analysis published July 9. The personal finance company compared the average premiums for a silver health insurance plan with each state’s…
The District of Columbia has the highest total primary care physicians per 100,000 residents, while Utah has the fewest. KFF used state licensing information from Redi-Data in May 2026 to determine the number of professionally active primary care physicians by…
Emergency medicine physicians per capita vary more than fourfold across the U.S., from 51.32 per 100,000 residents in the District of Columbia to 11.55 in Alabama, according to data from KFF and the U.S. Census Bureau. Becker’s used KFF’s count…