Financial assessment of small multihospital systems.
This article examines the financial performance of small multihospital systems relative to freestanding hospitals. Small systems, defined as seven or fewer hospital units, were analyzed for three ownership categories: investor owned, church related, and secular not-for-profit. Finding few statistically significant differences between system and independent hospitals indicates that small systems are unable to fulfill the financial promises of system affiliation.
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