Dr. Weil responds.
The July, 1986, issue of HCSM included an article by Thomas P. Weil, Ph.D., President, Bedford Health Associates, Asheville, North Carolina, entitled "The Effects of Ownership, System Affiliation and Corporate Unbundling on the Performance of Hospitals", p. 4-9. Several health executives have inquired whether Dr. Weil could provide substantive evidence to support his conclusions on the differences between not-for-profit and investor-owned hospitals. Here, are Dr. Weil's responses. It should be noted that this substantive evidence was included in the original paper and was deleted, however, when it was edited for publication.
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