title: Assessing Catholic community hospitals versus nonprofit community hospitals, 1989-1992.
abstract: Catholic community hospitals are becoming more like nongovernment, not-for-profit community hospitals of a similar bed size located in the same states. After controlling for state, urban-versus-rural location, and bed-size range, a matched set of 303 Catholic community hospitals are compared with nongovernment, not-for-profit community hospitals. This empirical study documents that the average 1992 Catholic hospital is less profitable, with older equipment, and treats more Medicare patients than the average matched community hospital.
authors.affiliation: J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
authors.forename: T R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Prince
mesh_terms: D002410:Catholicism; D017047:Cost Sharing; D006271:Health Facility Closure; D006273:Health Facility Merger; D006742:Hospital Bed Capacity; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016519:Hospitals, Religious / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016555:Matched-Pair Analysis; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D006278:Medicare; D014481:United States