. 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 …

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 …

provision of medical services and on operating margins at the three types of hospitals. We find that nonprofit hospitals … operating margins of nonprofit hospitals. These results fit best with theories in which hospitals maximize their own output …

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

hospital ownership in the urban context. We examine differences in the provision of profitable and unprofitable medical … services in rural areas across nonprofit, for-profit, and government hospitals. We also consider the effect of hospital … ownership mix within rural hospital markets. We find that rural nonprofit hospitals are more likely than for-profit hospitals to …

available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to estimating the quality of hospital care for elderly patients with heart … accurately estimate and forecast each provider's quality level. For patients with heart disease, the method is able to predict …