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Proprietary Hospital Social Work
Health & Social Work, 1988The rapid growth of the proprietary sector in the provision of social services creates a challenge for the social work profession. Little is known about social work services in for-profit organizations or about how they compare with similar services in nonprofit setting.
Elizabeth Thompson Ortiz +1 more
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Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 1997
Abstract As the health care industry evolves, communities will be faced with the choice of ownership structure for their local hospitals. Unfortunately, the evidence concerning which structure is most efficient, proprietary or non-proprietary, is mixed (e.g., Sloan and Vraciu 1983, pp. 25–37 and Clarkson 1972, pp. 374–377).
Richard B. Carter +2 more
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Abstract As the health care industry evolves, communities will be faced with the choice of ownership structure for their local hospitals. Unfortunately, the evidence concerning which structure is most efficient, proprietary or non-proprietary, is mixed (e.g., Sloan and Vraciu 1983, pp. 25–37 and Clarkson 1972, pp. 374–377).
Richard B. Carter +2 more
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Proprietary Hospital Chains and Academic Medical Centers
International Journal of Health Services, 1987This article examines the reasons why proprietary hospital chains have become interested in buying or managing academic health center hospitals. Among the explanations that are discussed are such factors as vertical integration of health care, chain legitimation, integration of finance and delivery systems, and short-term profit potential.
Robb K. Burlage, Howard S. Berliner
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The proprietary hospital industry: A financial analysis 1972–1982
Social Science & Medicine, 1985This paper evaluates the performance of both specific firms within the American for-profit hospital industry and the industry as a whole. First, traditional financial analysis is used to evaluate individual publicly traded for-profit chains. Then, industry performance from 1973 to 1982 is evaluated using a set of measures based on Modern Portfolio ...
John Daley, Israel Shaked, Allen Michel
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Further Evidence on the Relative Performance of Proprietary and Nonprofit Hospitals
Medical Care, 1977Proposed implementation of health systems agencies (HSA) gives potentially large roles to consurers and local government officials. The paper argues that there will be a tendency for HSAs to discriminate against proprietary hospitals. It is important, therefore, to have information on whether proprietaries belong in an efficient hospital system.
John E. Kushman, Carole Frank Nuckton
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JAMA Internal Medicine, 2021
The Epic Sepsis Model (ESM), a proprietary sepsis prediction model, is implemented at hundreds of US hospitals. The ESM's ability to identify patients with sepsis has not been adequately evaluated despite widespread use.To externally validate the ESM in the prediction of sepsis and evaluate its potential clinical value compared with usual care.This ...
Olivia DeTroyer-Cooley +11 more
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The Epic Sepsis Model (ESM), a proprietary sepsis prediction model, is implemented at hundreds of US hospitals. The ESM's ability to identify patients with sepsis has not been adequately evaluated despite widespread use.To externally validate the ESM in the prediction of sepsis and evaluate its potential clinical value compared with usual care.This ...
Olivia DeTroyer-Cooley +11 more
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Mental disorders in public, private nonprofit, and proprietary general hospitals
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1996The authors' goal was to assess the effects of facility ownership on the characteristics of psychiatric inpatients treated in public, private nonprofit, or proprietary general hospitals.Data from the 1993 National Hospital Discharge Survey were analyzed to determine the number, sociodemographic and diagnostic composition, and treatment characteristics ...
D Mechanic, Mark Olfson
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Proprietary hospitals in cost containment
The American Journal of Cardiology, 1985Any effort to control the rise in health care costs must start with analyzing the causes, which are really quite simple. Most cost control efforts fail because they do not address the causes. The causes are large subsidies in several forms that send a false message that health care is free and should be used abundantly, and expansive reimbursement ...
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Health Services Management Research, 1990
Individual hospitals often share their markets with other nearby hospitals. In this paper we examine how a hospital's ownership and the ownership of its hospital neighbours influence the availability of selected services. The presence of a CT scanner and a newborn nursery were found to be associated with both hospital ownership (voluntary, proprietary,
Robert G. Hughes, Harold S. Luft
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Individual hospitals often share their markets with other nearby hospitals. In this paper we examine how a hospital's ownership and the ownership of its hospital neighbours influence the availability of selected services. The presence of a CT scanner and a newborn nursery were found to be associated with both hospital ownership (voluntary, proprietary,
Robert G. Hughes, Harold S. Luft
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A profile of preacquisition proprietary hospitals
Health Care Management Review, 1988A study was conducted to compare the financial, hospital, and market characteristics of proprietary hospitals prior to their acquisition by investor-owned hospital chains to free-standing proprietary hospitals and not-for-profit preacquisition hospitals.
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