2024 BLASR
Learn more about this year’s winner and how to attend the BLASR Award Dinner
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?
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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Do rich patients get better care, or just more care?
Are higher-income patients at higher risk for overuse? A recent study in Health Affairs considers the relationship between patient income and value of care. More
Large hospital bill? You should’ve chosen the hospital down the street.
Some hospitals in the same cities have very different policies for large bill assistance. Here are a few examples from the recently released Lown Institute data set. More
The most socially responsible hospital systems in America
The Lown Index ranks more than 300 hospital systems on social responsibility. Find out which ones made the top ten! More