Virtual care is a powerful tool for preventive care—it’s a key reason that Congress made permanent first-dollar coverage ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

This study analyzed hospital admissions data from Elevance-affiliated commercial health plans in 20 states between 2012 and 2018 to determine the impacts of mergers on quality and access to care.

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.