2024 BLASR
Learn more about this year’s winner and how to attend the BLASR Award Dinner
2024 Fair Share Results
Are hospitals giving back as much as they take?
2023 Shkreli Awards
The worst in healthcare profiteering and dysfunction
Avoiding Overuse: Coronary Stents
How professional inertia harms patients and wastes billions of dollars
America’s Most Racially Inclusive Hospitals
Socially responsible hospitals serve everyone in their communities.
2023 Social Responsibility Rankings
Which of America’s hospitals performed the best this year?
Pay Equity
How much should we pay nonprofit hospital CEOs? What are we rewarding them for — and what metrics could we base their salaries on instead?
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Update: The benefits and harms of earlier screening for breast cancer
The USPSTF just finalized their recommendation to lower the screening age for breast cancer from 50 to 40. What are the potential harms and benefits? More
More than half of doctors receive industry payments, with some making millions
A recent study finds that 57% of physicians received a payment from industry over the past ten years. What are the implications of these payments? More
Community Health Needs Assessments: What you should know
When it comes to hospitals giving back to their communities, it doesn’t only matter how much hospitals spend, but how they spend it. More