More than 30 Weill Cornell Medicine faculty and staff were honored June 25 with Excellence in Medical Education Awards at a ceremony held on campus.

The center connects health policy researchers across Cornell’s campuses to help shape effective health policy at the federal, state and local levels.

Hospices are increasingly owned by private equity firms and publicly traded companies, but recently Weill Cornell Medicine researchers found that they performed substantially worse than hospices owned by not-for-profit agencies.

Nursing homes acquired by private equity companies saw an increase in emergency room visits and hospitalizations among long-stay residents and an uptick in Medicare costs, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.