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.
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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AMA votes for stronger financial assistance standards
Physicians and medical students of the AMA recently voted in favor of stronger financial assistance standards. Why are stronger standards needed, and how could this help relieve medical debt for patients? More
Five ways to reduce back surgery overuse
The Lown Institute released new data on unnecessary back surgeries in Medicare, identifying 200,000 low-value procedures and $2 billion in Medicare dollars wasted over three years. Back surgery overuse varies widely among states, hospitals, and even doctors in the same hospital. We brought together Dr. Sohail Mirza, orthopedic surgeon and professor at Dartmouth College, and […] More
PRESS RELEASE: Unnecessary back surgeries cost Medicare up to $600 million annually
Every eight minutes an unnecessary back surgery is performed, costing Medicare $2 billion over the three years studied. More