decades, very little is known about the quality of care CCRCs provide. This paper is the first to rigorously study CCRCs on a … national scale and the only study that focuses on nursing home quality. Using a national sample from 2005, we determine if the … quality of post-acute care provided by CCRC nursing homes is superior to traditional nursing homes. To mimic randomization of …

This study assesses the impact of competition on quality and price in the English care/nursing homes market … could increase or reduce quality. A dataset comprising the population of 10,000 care homes was used. We constructed distance … quality and price were reduced by greater competition. Further analyses suggested that the negative quality effect worked …

Abstract The ownership and governance of for-profit (FP), nonprofit (NP), and local government (LG) organizations are … organizations and NP organizations provide similar levels of quality attributes that are observable to their customers and are well … but costly quality attributes than their NP and LG counterparts. Using a rich dataset, we study the quality of outcomes …

that nonprofit nursing homes are less likely to hospitalize their residents. However, the correlation between ownership and … within an 18-month period spanning January 1, 2004 and June 30, 2005. After instrumenting for ownership status, we found that … IV estimates of the effect of nonprofit ownership on hospitalization are at least as large as the non …

. In these same locations, the quality of work is higher than in for-profits. …

We examine the evolving structure of the U.S. hospital industry since 1970, focusing on how ownership form influences …