Covid-19 shows how our hospital system is “separate and unequal”
An investigation of a hospital overwhelmed by Covid-19 in Los Angeles shows the vast inequalities between the safety net institutions and other hospitals in the area. More
VIDEO: Hospital price transparency
On January 1, a new CMS rule on hospital price transparency went into effect. What does the new regulation do? How could it affect the cost of care? And are hospitals complying? Shannon and Vikas answer these questions on this week’s Lown Hospitals Q&A. More
VIDEO: An introduction to community benefits
What types of spending count as community benefits, and which types of hospitals spend the most? Shannon and Vikas tackle these questions and more on this week's Lown Hospitals Q&A. More
Medicare spending and low-value care: Lessons from the Dartmouth Atlas and Lown Hospitals Index
To what extent does high Medicare spending reflect more hospital utilization of low-value care? Can low-value care within certain regions be attributed to individual hospitals? We compared data from the Dartmouth Atlas and the Lown Hospitals Index, to gain insight into these questions. More
VIDEO: Five things hospitals should continue after Covid-19
Covid-19 has revealed a lot of failures in the health care system. But some of the changes hospitals have had to make are worth keeping. In this week's Hospitals Q&A video, Shannon Brownlee and Vikas Saini discuss five things hospitals should keep doing after the pandemic. More
Video: Measuring patient satisfaction in hospitals
How can we measure the ways in which hospital environments promote healing? And what do we find on the Lown Index when it comes to patient satisfaction? Shannon Brownlee and Dr. Vikas Saini tackle these questions and more in this week's video. More
VIDEO: Racism and Hospitals
How does structural racism manifest in the hospital sector and what can we do about it? At the first in the Lown Presents event series, Lown Institute leaders invited a health equity expert and the CEO of one of the most inclusive hospitals in the nation to discuss this crucial topic. More
How do Massachusetts hospitals stack up on the Lown Hospitals Index?
At a presentation for the Massachusetts Health Data Collaborative, Vikas Saini and Shannon Brownlee discussed why they created the Lown Hospitals Index, how the metrics were developed, and what the results show about hospitals in Massachusetts. Watch the full presentation here! More
What do we value in primary care?
How can we measure what really matters in primary care? In an essay in KevinMD, Dr. Michelle-Linh Nguyen offers a vision for better metrics in primary care. More
VIDEO: Hysterectomy overuse in US hospitals
In this latest edition of “Lown Hospitals Q&A,” Shannon Brownlee and Vikas Saini talk about the prevalence and harm of hysterectomy overuse, and what the Lown Index shows about hysterectomies in US hospitals. More