According to a new Harvard Medical School analysis published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, patients are more likely to receive high quality care in not-for profit hospitals, at least when it comes to three common conditions. Having more registered nurses, more advanced technology and federal/military designation all have an impact on care quality, too, researchers found. To conduct the study, researchers analyzed how hospitals treated congestive heart failure, acute myocardial infarction and pneumonia in about 4,000 hospitals that reported data to JCAHO or CMS. Overall, 76 percent of patients hospitalized with CHF, AMI or pneumonia received recommended care across all recommended measures. While non-profits performed better than for-profit hospitals, federal and military hospitals had the highest performance of all.
Get more information on the study:
- read the Harvard Medical School press release [1]
Links:
[1] http://web.med.harvard.edu/sites/RELEASES/html/12_11Landon.html