Health Care Quality
Recommendations for Improving the System
Every day, millions of Americans receive high-quality health care that helps to maintain or restore their health and ability to function. Skilled physicians, nurses, and other health care practitioners offer expert compassionate care to people in need. High-caliber hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care institutions provide care to patients in need of acute and chronic care. Academic health centers educate and train new generations of health care practitioners and house many of the finest scientific minds who advance the science of health care. Federal, State, and local governments, private employers, labor unions, and others purchase health care coverage for…