Patient Engagement June 28, 2022
Only 66 of the 3,600 hospitals included in the Lown Institute’s social responsibility index scored well across measures of health equity, value, and health outcomes.
Fewer than 2 percent of the nearly 3,600 hospitals included in this year’s Lown Institute Hospital Index for Social Responsibility ranked among the best for health equity, value, and outcomes, the organization shared with PatientEngagementHIT via email.
The report, the first iteration of which was published back in 2020, also highlighted 15 exemplars that achieved top marks for social responsibility while also balancing extreme COVID-19 burdens, defined as going 26 or more weeks with at least 10 percent of inpatient beds filled by COVID-19 patients during the first year of the pandemic.
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