Hospital service offerings: does Catholic ownership matter?
Controlling for market and organizational characteristics, Catholic hospitals in 2001 offered more stigmatized and compassionate care services than investor-owned hospitals, and more stigmatized services than public hospitals. There were no differences between Catholic hospitals and other nonprofit hospitals, however, in the number of compassionate, stigmatized, and access services offered. This may reflect growing isomorphism in the nonprofit hospital sector.
White
Kenneth R
KR
Graduate Program in Health Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA. krwhite@vcu.edu
Begun
James W
JW
Tian
Wenqiang
W
D002410:Catholicism; D004645:Empathy; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary / Q000941:ethics; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000941:ethics; D016519:Hospitals, Religious / Q000941:ethics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000941:ethics; D006801:Humans; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000941:ethics / Q000458:organization & administration; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010067:Ownership / Q000145:classification*; D016012:Poisson Distribution; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012935:Social Justice; D013240:Stereotyping; D035862:Vulnerable Populations