We measure one aspect of how access to emergency care through ambulance services changes for patients when a hospital … period immediately after the hospital closes. We find urban patients in zip codes where a hospital closes have a small change … to transport a patient from the location of the incident to the hospital. The impact on rural Medicare-eligible patients …

of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. Despite the central role of …. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a … combination of novel data and a unique quasi-experiment: a large-scale hospital modernization program introduced by The Duke …

Salvador. Using a panel dataset of municipalities spanning 2009-2018 from consultation and hospital records of almost 4 million …

Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital …-physician managers. The paper finds a strong positive association between the ranked quality of a hospital and whether the CEO is a …

role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held …

within 15 days between extreme regions. They may reflect spatial differences in patient characteristics, treatments, hospital …

from a mother's residence to the closest hospital. We find that giving birth in a hospital leads to substantial reductions …