Dive Brief: U.S. News & World Report’s annual best hospitals rankings will include a number of new categories and other tweaks when the 2021-2022 list comes out July 27, according to a statement released Wednesday. The publication is ranking hospitals on seven new procedures and conditions, including heart attack, stroke, pneumonia, diabetes, kidney failure, hip… Read More »
This month, the American Medical Association (AMA) officially released an ambitious three-year plan to dismantle structural racism within their organization by addressing past harms and examining institutional roles that uphold these structures. AMA launched this work in 2019, but the events of 2020 and 2021 highlighted the pervasiveness of racial inequity in health care and emphasizing… Read More »
Scott Brown, police officer, Streetsboro, OH. William Schaffner, MD, professor of infectious diseases, Vanderbilt University. Valerie Lehmann, junior, University of Maryland, College Park. Daniel A. Domenech, PhD, executive director, the School Superintendents Association. Caitlin Rivers, PhD, senior scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Streetsboro City Schools: “School Is Closed for All Students Effective 3/13/2020-4/3/2020… Read More »
Now in its fourth edition, this book defines and illustrates the application of effectiveness, efficiency, and equity criteria for evaluating health services system performance. It integrates the theories, issues, approaches, and methods of health services research, providing an excellent framework for understanding health services systems and change. The authors take a broad and integrative look… Read More »