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Should We Still Have Nonprofit Hospitals?
Patient experience, operations, and charity care muddy the waters between for-profit and nonprofit hospitals.
By Will Maddox
Published in
Healthcare Business
June 29, 2021
9:00 pm
If you walked into a nonprofit hospital in North Texas, it would look and feel nearly identical to a for-profit hospital. In fact, many patients may not even know there is a difference. Regarding patient experience and hospital operations, the differences between the two are slim, and data show that for-profit hospitals actually provide more charity care than nonprofit.
Texas has the second-highest percentage of for-profit hospitals (behind only Nevada), which makes sense given its pro-market political stance. More than half of the hospitals in the state are for-profit, and North Texas is a prime example of how the systems compete for business. As soon as a North Texas suburb is large enough to support a community hospital, the major systems (Baylor S
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