Abstract:
:During the past five years, contract management of nonprofit hospitals by for-profit corporations has increased markedly. However, while a number of studies have been conducted on investor-owned hospitals and proprietary hospital systems, contract-managed hospitals have not been evaluated systematically. This paper reports a pilot study which compares a sample of 32 nonprofit hospitals under management contracts with matched hospitals uneder traditional in-house management. Although few major differences were found between the study hospitals, the findings indicate that contract-managed hospitals tend to offer a somewhat broader range of services, especially in the outpatient area, younger, more highly educated administrators, and show lower cost per patient stay largely due to somewhat lower employee-to-bed and payroll-to-total expense ratios and shorter lengths of stay.
journal_name
Med Carejournal_title
Medical careauthors
Biggs EL,Kralewski JE,Brown GDdoi
10.1097/00005650-198006000-00002subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1980-06-01 00:00:00pages
585-96issue
6eissn
0025-7079issn
1537-1948journal_volume
18pub_type
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