2025 Bernard Lown
Award for Social Responsibility
We’re looking for trailblazing clinicians who are leading the movement for a just and caring healthcare system.
Nominations are open for the 2024 Shkreli Awards
Profiteering, dysfunction, and a whole lot of messiness – welcome to the Shkreli Awards!
2024 Social Responsibility Rankings
Which of America’s hospitals performed the best this year?
2024 BLASR
Learn more about our most recent winner of the Bernard Lown Award for Social Responsibility, Dr. Lilia Cervantes!
The State of Medical Debt in the U.S.
How do we address the growing problem of medical debt in the United States?
2024 Fair Share Results
Are hospitals giving back as much as they take in tax exemptions?
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.
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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The downsides to breast density notifications
A new rule from the US Food and Drug Administration just went into effect last month, requiring that mammography providers notify patients about their breast density along with their mammogram results. How does this affect patients? More
REGISTER: Webinar on Unnecessary Back Surgery
Register now for the webinar "Unnecessary Back Surgery: Older Americans put at risk while Billions in Medicare funds wasted" on November 14, 2024. More
Hospital community benefit: Five takeaways from our DC summit
Our key takeaways from the recent conference on hospital tax exemptions and community benefit spending, cohosted by the Lown Institute and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. More