Lown Institute Hospitals Index
How does your hospital rank?
2026 Bernard Lown Award for Social Responsibility
Congratulations to Dr. Chanelle Diaz!
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
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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WATCH: Do tax-exempt hospitals adapt charity care to community needs?
At the latest edition of Lunchtime Paper Presentations, Dr. Cory Cronin from Ohio University shared new research on the relationship between More
“How do we thread the needle to achieve both access and affordability?” Experts discuss primary care at LOWN26
Watch the video recording of the LOWN26 panel, "Exit or organize? Primary care pathways to a more affordable system." More
Making the grade: Why it’s so difficult to make the Lown Hospitals Index Honor Roll
Why is it hard for hospitals to achieve "A" grades on equity, value, and outcomes? What do we know about the hospitals achieving these goals? More