title: No prisoners. For-profit vs. not-for-profit hospital skirmishes intensify.
abstract: Intense competition has manifested itself in a number of Southern markets where historic Civil War battles took place. Like Union and Confederate regiments lining up against each other, once-competing hospitals have fallen in along ownership lines to form two competing systems: one for-profit, the other not-for-profit.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Burda
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lutz
mesh_terms: D004465:Economic Competition / Q000639:trends*; D006273:Health Facility Merger; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008145:Louisiana; D010067:Ownership; D013022:South Carolina; D015144:Southeastern United States; D014768:Virginia