comparing not-for-profit and for-profit institutions /
edited by David M. Cutler.
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2000.
1 online resource (ix, 368 pages) :
illustrations
A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
In recent years, the hospital industry has been undergoing massive change and reorganization with technological innovations and the spread of managed care. As a result, the total number of hospitals countrywide has been declining, and a growing number of not-for-profit hospitals have converted to for-profit status. These changes raise two fundamental questions: What determines a hospital's choice of for-profit or not-for-profit organizational form? And how does that form affect patients and society? This timely volume provides a factual basis for discussing for-profit versus not-f.
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Changing hospital industry.
Health facilities-- Economic aspects-- United States.
Hospitals-- Economic aspects-- United States.
Hospital Administration-- United States, Congresses.
Hospital Administration, Congresses-- United States.
Hospital Administration.
Hospital Administration.
Hospitals, Proprietary-- economics-- United States, Congresses.
Hospitals, Proprietary-- economics.
Hospitals, Proprietary-- United States, Congresses.
Hospitals, Proprietary, Congresses-- economics-- United States.
Hospitals, Proprietary.
Hospitals, Voluntary-- economics-- United States, Congresses.
Hospitals, Voluntary-- economics.
Hospitals, Voluntary-- United States, Congresses.
Hospitals, Voluntary, Congresses-- economics-- United States.
Hospitals, Voluntary.
Privatization-- economics-- United States, Congresses.
Privatization-- economics.
Privatization, Congresses-- economics-- United States.
Privatization.
Quality of Health Care-- economics-- United States, Congresses.
Quality of Health Care-- economics.
Quality of Health Care-- United States, Congresses.
Quality of Health Care, Congresses-- economics-- United States.