. For patients with diagnoses of Pneumonia or Acute Myocardial Infarction, an additional day in the hospital could decrease … reducing mortality rates far exceed the cost of keeping these patients in the hospital for an additional day … as important indicators of hospital quality. Concerns have been raised, however, as to whether post-discharge mortality …

human capital (general, hospital-specific and unit or team-specific) of the nursing team on the unit affects patients … use detailed longitudinal monthly data on nursing units in the Veterans Administration hospital system to identify how the …

Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand … Medicare pneumonia patients in this market. We find that the mean valuation of amenities is positive and substantial. From the … patient perspective, hospital quality therefore embodies amenities as well as clinical quality. We also find that a one …

yields far more accurate estimates of hospital quality than previously available. We find that, on average, for …-profit hospitals have higher mortality among elderly patients with heart disease, and that this difference has grown over the last …

objectives among not-for-profit hospitals. Boards appear to fire the managers that are least able to compete in the new … competitive environment and reward incumbent managers more for achieving for-profit goals. Consistent with donors' belief that …

outcomes: for patients with the same propensity to be treated, prejudice implies a higher return from treatment for treated …

reasons that may not be in patients' best interests. Optimal Medicare reimbursement policy depends upon the extent to which … payment for skilled nursing facilities (SNF PPS) in geographic areas with high versus low levels of hospital/SNF integration …

financial health affect different aspects of hospital operation. In our study, we analyze this issue focusing on hospital access … account both hospital's current and past financial health as well as their expected financial outlook (i.e., whether there is …

Mergers that affiliate a hospital with a Catholic owner, network, or system reduce the set of possible reproductive …