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Health Equity

Photo & Text Report: Penn LDI at the 2025 AcademyHealth Research Meeting

A Gathering of a Health Services Research Community Currently Under Siege

By:
  • Hoag Levins
June 17, 2025

Blog Post

For-Profit Hospitals Invest Less in Nursing Services

As States Consider Reforms, Study Finds Sharp Disparities in Staffing and Safety Between For-Profit and Not-For-Profit Hospitals

By:
  • Miles Meline, MBE
June 11, 2025

Blog Post

Surveys of Hospital Patients Evolve to Use Email, Phone and Mail and Even Narratives

Concerns Remain About Measuring Racism. LDI Experts Weigh in on How HCAHPS Surveys Can Be Improved

By:
  • Nancy Stedman
June 25, 2024

Blog Post

Population Health

Emergency Department Nurses Call For Improved Workplaces

Many Report Feeling Burnout From Working in Understaffed and Unsafe Environments

By:
  • K. Jane Muir, PhD, APRN
  • Linda H. Aiken, PhD, RN
November 7, 2023

News

Health Care Access & Coverage

Matthew McHugh Named to International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame

LDI Senior Fellow Cited by Nursing School Dean for "Extraordinary Accomplishments"

By:
  • Hoag Levins
April 7, 2023

Blog Post

Health Care Access & Coverage | Health Equity

Why Do Black Patients Receive Fewer Emergency Surgical Consultations than White Patients?

Finding the Answer Could Help Reduce the Disparities that Worsen Outcomes and Survival

By:
  • Jen Fisher Wilson
November 28, 2022

In The Media Vox

The Way the United States Pays for Nurses Is Broken

Interview

Featured Fellow:
  • Matthew D. McHugh, PhD, RN
June 6, 2022

Blog Post

Hospital Nurses and Patient Outcomes: A Matter of Degree?

Bachelor's-Prepared Nurses Associated with Better Outcomes

By:
  • Joshua Porat-Dahlerbruch, PhD, RN and Linda H. Aiken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FRCN
January 13, 2022

In The Media News 24

Employing More Nurses Can Reduce Total Health Costs, Study Suggests

Interview

Featured Fellow:
  • Matthew D. McHugh, PhD, RN
June 2, 2021

Blog Post

Health Equity

Nurse Staffing and Outcomes of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Staffing Levels Linked to Racial Disparities in Survival

By:
  • J. Margo Brooks Carthon, PhD, RN
  • Heather Brom, PhD, RN, NP-C
January 27, 2021

News

Health Care Access & Coverage

Scope of Practice Restrictions and Vulnerable Populations

LDI Virtual Conference Explores The Issue's Changing Dynamics

By:
  • Hoag Levins
November 21, 2020

News

LDI Fellows McHugh, Merchant and Carr Named to National Academy of Medicine

Cited for Contributions in Science, Medicine, and Health

By:
  • Hoag Levins
October 19, 2020

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