The Leapfrog Group has released the Results of its 2013 Hospital Survey, an in-depth look at seven areas of hospital quality and safety: medication errors, maternity care, high-risk surgeries, ...

The number of states — plus Washington, D.C. — without an “A”-rated hospital by Leapfrog increased from three to seven in less than two years. Since 2012, Leapfrog has assigned grades to nearly 3,000 ...

In what’s surely every patient’s nightmare, foreign objects such as surgical sponges sometimes get left behind inside the body during surgery. It happens only rarely, but to help avoid it, health care ...