After a cardiac arrest, families and doctors are often faced with agonizing uncertainty about a patient's chances of recovery ...

Duane Davis, MD, chief physician executive for the Institutes of AdventHealth Central Florida division in Orlando, discussed why it’s important to assess more than direct clinical outcomes of a ...

CHI Health Good Samaritan in Kearney has been named one of America's 250 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades.

Current policies aimed at improving the quality of health care in the United States have fallen short. However, a novel approach to achieving quality outcomes tested by the Center for Medicare and ...

In the last few years, rates of hospital readmissions have become a key indicator of care quality, and for good reason. When significant numbers of patients in post-acute care settings experience a ...

Patients who had non-emergency artery-opening angioplasty or stent implantation at hospitals without heart surgery capabilities fared as well as those in hospitals that did, according to research ...

Long Island in Mineola and Mather Hospital in Port Jefferson made Healthgrades' list of the nation's best hospitals for ...

Over the past several decades, an appealing idea rapidly gained popularity: The government could advance a health care system that rewarded the quality of care rather than the volume of care. Medicare ...

Although the cost of biomarker testing isn’t cheap, the cost of therapy for patients can be much higher, making it important to conduct these tests to start the right therapy, explained Susan Wescott, ...

NEW YORK, NY—Transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) with the Pascal system (Edwards Lifesciences) in patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation (MR) results in good early survival outcomes, ...

Patient demographics and outcomes are similar at academic and community hospitals in Ontario, new research indicates. A retrospective cohort study included all adult general medicine patients admitted ...