New public information created by CMS at Hospitalcompare.hhs.gov allows patients to compare which are the best hospitals in U.S.A. based on numerous factors.

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine says records at some New South Wales public hospitals are being changed to make emergency patient treatment times look faster.

A Medicare reimbursement lawsuit has resulted in a decision to pay out $666 million to 667 hospitals.

Although smoke-free policies have been introduced at all NHS Hospital Trusts a study by researchers at The University of Nottingham has found that smoking is still prevalent, even by staff in uniform.

Former Polish President and Nobel laureate Lech Walesa was discharged from a U.S. hospital Tuesday, four days after doctors successfully fitted him with a pacemaker.

Nurses won't be making home visits to their homebound patients anymore, and operating rooms at San Francisco General Hospital will be closed eight hours a day. Those are just two effects of the city Health Commission's Tuesday night budget slashing, described by the Department of Public Health as the deepest cuts officials have ever seen.

Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC has been selected to join an effort among select centers in the United States and Canada to collect and study information necessary to understand the possible causes and treatment of a destructive liver disease called primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC).

HealthGrades, the nation’s leading independent healthcare ratings organization, today identified America’s 50 Best Hospitals, an elite class of top-performing facilities. The HealthGrades America’s 50 Best Hospital designation represents the healthcare industry’s only quality ranking based solely on objective clinical outcomes among U.S. hospitals.

Staging mock cardiac and respiratory arrests – “code” situations in hospital parlance – easily expose common failures in rapid response with CPR and other life-saving care for children and also set up powerful incentives to sharpen emergency skills and move fast to use them, suggests a study from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.

Patients treated at top-rated hospitals nationwide are nearly one-third less likely to die, on average, than those admitted to all other hospitals, according to a study released today by HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings organization.

The Federal Government's plans for greater accountability for health funding have hit their first stumbling block, with New South Wales effectively vetoing the idea of league tables to compare hospitals.

Gordon Brown has praised the NHS for its ongoing deep-clean of hospitals that has brought a drop in the rate of infections.