The changing hospital industry : comparing not-for-profit and for-profit institutions /

The changing hospital industry : comparing not-for-profit and for-profit institutions /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 368 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Subject:	Health facilities -- Economic aspects -- United States. Hospitals -- Economic aspects -- United States. Privatization. Privatization -- Congresses -- economics -- United States. Hospitals, Proprietary -- United States -- Congresses. Hospitals, Proprietary -- Congresses -- economics -- United States. Quality of Health Care -- United States -- Congresses. Hospitals, Voluntary -- Congresses -- economics -- United States. Hospital Administration -- Congresses -- United States. Hospitals, Voluntary -- United States -- Congresses. Quality of Health Care -- Congresses -- economics -- United States. Hospitals, Proprietary. Hospitals, Voluntary. Hospital Administration. Quality of Health Care. Hospitals, Proprietary -- economics -- United States -- Congresses. Hospitals, Voluntary -- economics -- United States -- Congresses. Hospital Administration -- United States -- Congresses. Privatization -- economics -- United States -- Congresses. Quality of Health Care -- economics -- United States -- Congresses. Quality of Health Care -- economics. Hospital Administration. Privatization -- economics. Hospitals, Proprietary -- economics. Hospitals, Voluntary -- economics. Health facilities -- Economic aspects. Hospitals -- Economic aspects. United States. United States. Congress. Electronic books. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11182911

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Other authors / contributors:	Cutler, David M.
ISBN:	0226132226 9780226132228 0226132196 9780226132198 9780226132228
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Changing hospital industry. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000