The study was based on information collected during Thomson Reuter’s 100 Top Hospitals: Health System Benchmarks study, conducted in June 2010. To analyze the effects of ownership type on performance, the study categorized 255 hospitals into four groups: Catholic, other church, investor-owned and not-for-profit.
The results found the following:
• Catholic and other church-owned systems are significantly more likely to provide higher quality performance and efficiency to the communities served than investor-owned systems. Catholic health systems are also significantly more likely to provide higher quality performance to the communities served than secular not-for-profit health systems.
• Investor-owned systems have significantly lower performance than all other groups.
• Performance of other church-owned systems (non-Catholic) is not statistically different from either Catholic or not-for-profit systems.
Read the Thomson Reuter study on faith-based hospital performance (note: the study is no longer available on Thompson Reuter‘s website).
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