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Readmission rates in not-for-profit vs. proprietary hospitals before and after the hospital readmission reduction program implementation [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) to penalize hospitals with excessive 30-day hospital readmissions of Medicare enrollees for specific conditions. This policy was aimed
Lauren E. Birmingham, Willie H. Oglesby
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The Role of the Proprietary Hospital [PDF]

Law and Contemporary Problems, 1970
Within the hospital industry' in the United States there are few issues more controversial than that concerning the role of proprietary hospitals and the consequences of their operation.2 This controversy is striking in view of the fact that in I968 only I3.2 per cent of all nonfederal, short-term general and other special hospitals were proprietary ...
Steinwald, Bruce, Neuhauser, Duncan
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Creating an attractive workplace for current and potential hospital employees [PDF]

Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2021
The health service of EU member states facing numerous challenges. Hospitals have a catastrophic shortage of medical personnel; meanwhile, the demand for medical services caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus is increasing.
Nadia Maczuga
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Hospital Board of Directors’ Composition and Financial Performance: Empirical Evidence from Taiwan

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2021
The board of directors of a nonprofit proprietary hospital is responsible for supervising and managing major operational matters and reviewing operational results.
Kuan-Chen Chen PhD, Fang-Chu Hsieh MD, Yu-Jen Hsiao PhD   +2 more
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The problem of the incidence of falls in hospitals in Poland in the opinion of physiotherapists

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2023
Introduction: An unintentional fall is an event whereby a person inadvertently comes to rest on the ground or floor for reasons other than a violent impact, loss of consciousness, or the sudden onset of paralysis that can occur during a stroke or ...
Marcin Mikos, Agnieszka Ciukszo, Marta Podhorecka, Mateusz Curyło   +3 more
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Research and Development of a COVID-19 Tracking System in Order to Implement Analytical Tools to Reduce the Infection Risk

Sensors, 2022
The whole world is currently focused on COVID-19, which causes considerable economic and social damage. The disease is spreading rapidly through the population, and the effort to stop the spread is entirely still failing.
Erik Vavrinsky, Tomas Zavodnik, Tomas Debnar, Lubos Cernaj, Jozef Kozarik, Michal Micjan, Juraj Nevrela, Martin Donoval, Martin Kopani, Helena Kosnacova   +9 more
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Proprietary management and higher readmission rates: A correlation. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
INTRODUCTION:Reducing preventable readmissions among Medicare beneficiaries is an effective way to not only reduce the exorbitantly rising cost in healthcare but also as a measure to improve the quality of patient care.
Manish Mittal, Chih-Hsiung E Wang, Abigail H Goben, Andrew D Boyd   +3 more
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Proprietary Model of Qualification for In-Hospital Rehabilitation after COVID-19

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
Background: Since the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Poland, 6,128,006 people have been diagnosed, of which 116,798 died. Patients who recovered from COVID-19 and require rehabilitation due to varied impairments should be provided an opportunity to participate in an individualized, complex rehabilitation program starting from acute care and ...
Jan Szczegielniak, Anna Szczegielniak, Jacek Łuniewski, Katarzyna Bogacz   +3 more
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Validation of a Proprietary Deterioration Index Model and Performance in Hospitalized Adults

JAMA Network Open, 2023
ImportanceThe Deterioration Index (DTI), used by hospitals for predicting patient deterioration, has not been extensively validated externally, raising concerns about performance and equitable predictions.ObjectiveTo locally validate DTI performance and assess its potential for bias in predicting patient clinical deterioration.Design, Setting, and ...
Byrd, Thomas F., Southwell, Bronwyn, Ravishankar, Adarsh, Tran, Travis, Kc, Abhinab, Phelan, Tom, Melton-Meaux, Genevieve B., Usher, Michael G., Scheppmann, Daren, Switzer, Sean, Simon, Gyorgy, Tignanelli, Christopher J.   +11 more
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Rural Hospital Mergers Increased Between 2005 and 2016—What Did Those Hospitals Look Like?

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2020
The objective of this study is to determine whether key hospital-level financial and market characteristics are associated with whether rural hospitals merge.
Dunc Williams PhD, Kristin L. Reiter PhD, George H. Pink PhD, G. Mark Holmes PhD, Paula H. Song PhD   +4 more
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