Patients receiving care from for-profit hospices have substantially worse care experiences than patients who receive care from not-for-profit hospices, according to a new study from RAND Corporation ...
Every great cause, wrote the American longshoreman and philosopher Eric Hoffer, begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. One can only imagine how appalled ...
Patients receiving hospice care from for-profit providers have substantially worse care experiences than those who receive care from nonprofit hospice agencies, according to a study released Monday ...
Patients spending the end of their lives in for-profit hospices receive substantially worse care than those who are in nonprofit hospices, a new study claims. To come to that conclusion, RAND Corp.
Canadian health economist Robert Evans called them zombies: ideas killed long ago by evidence, but re-emerging from the grave — often in disguise. He was talking about user fees for health services.
While the fate of Steward Health Care's nine hospitals in Massachusetts remains in doubt, lawmakers and others are discussing what — and who — is to blame for the precarious state of the medical ...
Alaska Regional Hospital is part of the for-profit HCA Healthcare Inc. chain of 186 hospitals in the U.S. and England. At the end of February 2023, after a decade of serving the medical needs of the ...
The researchers found variation in overall performance of for-profit and not-for-profit hospices, so they say decisions on selecting a hospice should be based on publicly available data. Family ...