The much-maligned ‘quality-adjusted life year’ is a vital tool for health care policy By Joshua T. Cohen , Peter J. Neumann , and Daniel A. Ollendorf March 22, 2023 Reprints ...

Americans’ outlook on the quality of health care in the U.S. is at a 24-year low, according to a new survey. The Gallup poll, released Friday, shows 33 percent of U.S. adults said the quality of ...

Nursing homes and home care agencies have lost workers as the Trump administration has moved to end deportation protections ...

Following the 2022 sale of West Suburban Medical Center, young doctors at the Oak Park hospital are reporting the facility is in decline as quality of care and patient safety, along with other ...

More problematic, said David Grabowski, professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School, is “when it’s a high-quality facility in a more rural area without any other options.” ...

The evolution of health care quality metrics over the preceding decades illustrates an enduring commitment toward enhancing patient outcomes, refining the structure of health care delivery, and ...

E nsuring excellent quality and outcomes is the essential goal of medical care. To achieve it, a multitude of quality metrics have been added to clinicians’ work. They include things such as ...

Virtual care is a powerful tool for preventive care—it’s a key reason that Congress made permanent first-dollar coverage across the breadth of virtual care services.

Private-equity firms’ rapid pace of health care acquisitions have prompted discussions about their influence on the US health care system. Policy makers, especially at the state level, are ...

How To Expand Access to Affordable, High-Quality Child Care and Preschool. This webpage provides a menu of state policy recommendations and examples of state policies to expand access to ...

NPR's A Martínez talks to Gabriel Sanchez, senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings Institution, about the health care issues that voters are concerned with.