There are about 66,630 regulated long-term care facilities in the U.S., according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Together, these institutions, which include adult day care centers serve ...

This story has been updated to include additional comment from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics' most recent report put the U.S. maternal ...

Health care spending in the US reached $4.9 trillion and increased 7.5 percent in 2023, growing from a rate of 4.6 percent in 2022. In 2023, the insured share of the population reached 92.5 percent, ...

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Each year Health Affairs publishes retrospective National Health Expenditure (NHE) data from the National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA) team at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS ...

Kennedy-Shaffer is a biostatistics educator and researcher at the Yale School of Public Health. In early July, I began teaching a summer course: introductory biostatistics for an accelerated master’s ...

In a groundbreaking development, medical statistics have collectively refused to continue reporting health disparities without systematic change, claiming they’re “tired of documenting the same ...

As an editor and writer who has contributed to many national and local publications, Nicole Gregory enjoys communicating clearly on critical health topics so that readers can make informed choices for ...

We have our work cut out for us. Indiana consistently ranks near the bottom of multiple national health statistics, including maternal deaths (42nd out of 51 states and Washington D.C.) and mental ...