Top 100 hospitals: the best-run hospitals. For-profits spur efficiency.
For-profit hospital companies are spurring the industry's all-out drive toward efficiency. That's one of the principal findings of an analysis of 1994 Medicare cost and discharge data from 4,000 acute-care hospitals by HCIA and William M. Mercer. The analysis produced a list of ¿100 Top Hospitals: Benchmarks for Success.¿
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