Health services research
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Health services research · Apr 1999
Analysis of the rationale for, and consequences of, nonprofit and for-profit ownership conversions.
To examine percursors to private hospitals conversion, both from nonprofit status to for-profit status and from for-profit to nonprofit status, as well as the effect of hospital conversions on hospital profitability, efficiency, staffing, and the probability of closure. ⋯ The improvement in financial performance following hospital conversions may be a benefit to the community that policymakers want to consider when regulating hospital conversions.