Lown Hospitals Index
How did your hospital do?
LOWN26
A one-day conference on confronting healthcare affordability
The 2025 Shkreli Awards
A top ten list of healthcare’s worst stories
Unnecessary Back Surgeries
Older Americans put at risk; billions of Medicare dollars wasted
America’s Most Socially Responsible Hospitals
Setting the standard by measuring what matters
Hospital financial
assistance & debt
collection policies
A national data set
Making hospital
tax breaks work
for communities
An analysis of 20 states
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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PRESS RELEASE: Immigrant health champion Chanelle Diaz wins 2026 Bernard Lown Award for Social Responsibility
Chanelle Diaz, MD, MPH, to receive the 2026 Bernard Lown Award for Social Responsibility and $25,000 prize. More
VIDEO: How can different primary care models make healthcare more affordable?
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Hot takes from health leaders: Overrated and underrated policy solutions for high healthcare costs
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