The report, “Hospital Performance Differences by Ownership,” compares the quality and financial performance of nearly 3,000 hospitals under one of four types of ownership:
• Nonprofit, church
• Nonprofit, other
• For-profit, corporation
• Government (nonfederal)
Truven scored hospitals using its 100 Top Hospitals balanced scorecard measures, which include mortality rates, complication rates, operating profit margin and HCAHPS scores, among others.
Nonprofit, church-owned hospitals had the highest overall score and government-owned hospitals had the worst overall score, with significantly worse performance on core measures and inpatient expenses, according to the report.
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