Hospitals Archives

Health Care’s Climate Change Contradiction

We explore health care’s role in the climate crisis and what policies are needed to shrink its carbon footprint.

Katie Keith shares a new study looking at the distance to hospitals for zip codes with high percentages of people of color.

We explore cascades of care — how a clinician’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.

Katie Keith breaks down the newest rule outlining how new federal surprise bill legislation will be enforced.

Experts are worried the U.S. could be headed for its worst nursing shortage in 20 years.

Maria Polyakova looks at research showing that rural hospital closures may not have as dire economic impacts on their communities as often believed.

Jamie Daw looks at new research showing the uptake of a hospital price transparency tool for childbirth and its associations with cost of care.

Explore the guest and rerun episodes we featured in the Tradeoffs podcast feed during our August 2021 hiatus.

Bapu Jena digs into research looking at what happens to Medicare spending when urgent care centers enter a market.

Adam Gaffney looks at new research linking hospitals to racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality.