Shawn Redd
Shawn Redd is the founder of zReports Health, a California health care analytics company that builds decision intelligence from official records: inspections, penalties, staffing, outcomes, and prices for U.S. health care facilities, from hospitals and surgery centers to nursing homes and fertility clinics.
The company's research is archived on Cambridge Open Engage, Harvard Dataverse, Zenodo, and SSRN and is indexed on Google Scholar, and its methodology is registered with a digital object identifier (DOI). Recent whitepapers cover federal nursing home penalties and live birth rate variation across U.S. fertility clinics. Redd's research record is on ORCID, and zReports Health shares updates on X.
Health Policy
When a patient asks where to go for a knee replacement, a colonoscopy, or their mother's rehab stay, they have usually already looked. Not at the federal record. At the stars. Here is what the stars do not show. Our…
When a patient asks where to go for a knee replacement, a colonoscopy, or their mother’s rehab stay, they have usually already looked. Not at the federal record. At the stars.
Here is what the stars do not show. Our analysis of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services records found that 46 percent of U.S. nursing homes carry at least one federal civil money penalty on the current enforcement record, and …
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Nursing home ratings hide what the federal record shows
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