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Hospital - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch A general hospital is typically the major health care facility in its region, with large numbers of beds for intensive care and long-term care; and specialized facilities for surgery, plastic surgery, childbirth, bioassay laboratories, and so forth. Hospitals are usually distinguished from other types of medical facilities by their ability to admit and care for inpatients. The first teaching hospital, however, where students were authorized to methodically practice on patients under the supervision of physicians as part of their education, was the Academy of Gundishapur in the Persian Empire. encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /hospital.htm

Non-profit organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Although the characteristic of not earning or "making" a profit is widely believed by the general public to be definitive, most experts today agree that it is actually legal and ethical restrictions on the distribution of profits to owners or shareholders that is the defining characteristic of nonprofits. A non-profit organization (sometimes abbreviated to "not-for-profit" or "non-profit") is an organization whose primary objective is to support some issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes. A primary difference between a non-profit and a for-profit corporation is that a non-profit does not issue dividends, and may not enrich its directors. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Non-profit_organization

For-Profit Medicine and the Compassion Motive It’s not that for-profit hospitals alone attract the kindly and compassionate, since the elderly volunteers in the nonprofit hospital were surely kindly and compassionate. The for-profit pain clinic at the for-profit hospital I visited was staffed by doctors and nurses who showed me extraordinary kindness and treated me with gentleness. Then, unlike the doctor in the for-profit hospital, he slammed in the needle and injected the medication with such surprising and agonizing force that it caused me to let loose a real yell, quite unlike my previous experience. www.fee.org /vnews.php?nid=4755

Public Policy Sources #35: Evidence In addition, non-profit hospitals were far less homogeneous in their input choices (e.g., personnel per bed) than for-profits were, implying that non-profit managers are less driven by market forces to choose the input mix that minimizes costs (Clarkson, 1972). Of the 24 articles comparing for-profit and non-profit hospital performance reviewed in this study, 7 found that for-profits performed better, 5 found that non-profits performed better, and 12 found no difference in performance. They tested whether US non- and for-profits operated according to the same production process, reasoning that if there was no significant difference in the manner in which labour and capital were combined in production, then there could be no difference in efficiency. oldfraser.lexi.net /publications/pps/35/section_05.html

UB News Services Private not-for-profit hospitals are owned by religious organizations, communities, regional health authorities or hospital boards. "These issues raise concerns that the profit motive causes hospitals to limit care in ways that affect patient outcomes, and our findings suggest such concerns are justified." Our systematic review raises concerns about the potential negative health outcomes associated with for-profit hospitals. www.buffalo.edu /news/fast-execute.cgi/article-print-page.html?article=57120009

not-for-profit hospital (county,health,hospital,medical,not-for-profit,services) Nestled in the center of Northern Kentucky, Fleming County Hospital is a not-for-profit hospital serving residents of several rural counties. We are proud to be a not-for-profit, community-based hospital providing medical, surgical and behavioral health services to meet your health care needs. not-for-profit hospital offering medical, surgical and behavioral health services. www.health-x.com /health-x/not-for-profit-hospital.html

Emerging Trends in Non-Profit and For-Profit Hospital Mergers, Acquisitions and Joint Ventures The impetus appears to be fear that for-profits will cease serving under-privileged communities and that the efficiency-driven focus of a for-profit hospital will cause a narrowing or detrimental change to the scope of health services provided. Hospital mergers in 1997 largely were single hospitals in the same region banding together to deal with the demands of managed care. Historically, hospital mergers were intended to avert downsizing, provide financial stimulus to hospitals that could not survive on their own and ultimately save money for patients. www.bassberry.com /resources/corp/030098/1.html

Credit Discussion Of Non-Profit Hospitals Hospitals which have a large fee-for-service contractual arrangements, although they can be extremely profitable, tend to have a longer reimbursement cycle. Hospitals serving a large amount of Medicaid patients or having a large amount of unsubsidized non-paying charity care patients, have a very difficult time generating positive operating cash flows. If the hospital failed to make the required payments on the loan, its revenue generating capacity could be severely impaired if the non-recourse lender moved to foreclose on the property. www.jeffreymatthews.com /Research/Hospital.htm

Hospital Watch - Provided by the Law Offices of Archie Lamb The lawsuits charge national for-profit hospital chain HMA with billing uninsured patients amounts substantially greater than amounts accepted by the hospital from Medicare and insurance companies for the same procedures. The litigation is focused on correcting the abuses of for-profit hospitals that gouge the uninsured while reaping billions in profits. Hospital and medical bills are the second leading cause of personal bankruptcy after unemployment. www.hospitalpricegouging.org /update_080504.html

St. Francis to be state's only for-profit hospital - 2005-06-20 The St. Francis hospitals in Liliha and Ewa, which currently are not-for-profit, are expected to be sold to for-profit developer Cardiovascular Hospitals of America and the 120-member Philippine Medical Association of Hawaii and Hawaii Filipino Healthcare groups by the year's end. Francis Medical Centers on Oahu will be the state's only for-profit hospitals when they're sold to a local doctors' group and a Kansas-based hospital developer. "The relationship no longer will be a for-profit doctor working with a not-for-profit hospital. www.bizjournals.com /pacific/stories/2005/06/20/story6.html

1 No. 80: Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital, et al. v. MEETH is a Type B corporation, one of a species organized for charitable, educational, religious, scientific, literary or cultural purposes or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals (see N-PCL 201 [b]; see also 1 Phelan, Nonprofit Enterprises: Corporations, Trusts, and Associations § 1:45, at 1-54). A chief difference is that not-for-profits, unlike their for-profit counterparts, by definition and concept do not have shareholders to whom profits are distributed. In a comprehensive writing, the court concluded that the proposed agreement was not fair and reasonable to the hospital because it failed to take the hospital's business value into account and sought only to "monetize" the real estate, despite offers from other entities that would preserve the hospital. www.law.cornell.edu /ny/ctap/I04_0087.htm

For-Profit Hospitals Have Higher Death Rates Both non-profit and for-profit facilities can be supported by premiums from insurance companies, but for-profit hospitals are ultimately owned by shareholders and investors. Devereaux and his team analyzed 15 studies that compared 26,000 private for-profit and private non-profit hospitals in the US, which collectively treated 38 million patients between 1982 and 1995. Devereaux stressed that the increased death rate of 2% in for-profit hospitals is simply an average, and does not necessarily mean that every for-profit facility has an exactly 2% higher risk of death among its patients. www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines02/0528-07.htm

Mercy Medical Center A for-profit hospital distributes income in excess of expenses (profits) among its shareholders, individuals who often have no other ties to the community their hospital serves. There are many factors that contribute to a hospital being designated not-for-profit; however, the primary consideration is the hospital's commitment to serving its community. Of course, the hospital does need to be paid for its services to guarantee future access to the high quality of healthcare services that the people of Douglas County deserve. www.mercyrose.org /notforprofit.html

Second for-profit hospital chain enters area Many hospitals are stand-alone facilities that don’t have the financial resources to establish and recruit these higher-end specialists because of the financial commitment of equipment and tools that are necessary, as well as the income guarantees required to get these physicians in and established. Brandywine is an excellent hospital poised for a lot of success, in need of additional capital and in need of development of the existing medical staff—in need of many of the fundamentals that we bring to the table to help hospitals be successful. There’s approximately 100,000 people in a radius around the hospital where there’s no other competitor and where we can basically be the dominant provider for that primary service area and be able to grow the volume at the hospital by enhancing the services that are currently there, by recruiting additional physicians and by capital infusion. www.physiciansnews.com /spotlight/1001dv.html

For-Profit Community Health Systems Pulls Out Of Deal With Victor Valley Community Hospital SAN FRANCISCO, CA - The for-profit hospital chain Community Health Systems (CHS) terminated its proposed agreement to purchase nonprofit Victor Valley Community Hospital in Victorville, according to a letter released late last week by the office of Attorney General Bill Lockyer. VVCH is the only hospital with a significant charity care program located in its primary and secondary service areas. Charity care is defined as the amount of care given to patients who are unable to pay, and for which the hospital has no expectation of payment from any third-party payer. www.consumersunion.org /health/victorwc799.htm

Abbotsford: For-profit hospital endangers community’s health Hospital support workers are clear that there is another way to build the hospital, but “nobody asks us anything,” says long-term care aide Joy Clarke. Giroux and other hospital workers — from those just starting out to those at the end of their careers — are deeply upset at the P3 hospital plans. And he thinks the impact of changes at the hospital and in other sectors will mean, “everywhere you look people are going to be losing their jobs. grace.cupe.ca /www/ARP2002Abbotsford

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN HEALTH CARE LAW A federal trial court ruled that an IRS revocation of a not-for-profit hospital’s tax-exempt status was improper where that hospital entered into a joint venture with a for-profit health care company, and where that hospital retained procedural safeguards to ensure its charitable purpose. The court, in holding for the plaintiff, found that a joint venture may be overseen by a community board equally representative of both the not-for-profit and for-profit partners while successfully ensuring the community’s interests and the not-for-profit’s charitable purpose through alternate safeguards. Plaintiff, a Texas not-for-profit health care system, challenged the IRS revocation of its tax-exempt status after it entered into a limited partnership with HCA Inc., a for-profit health care company. www.nmmlaw.com /publications/jtvent.html

For-Profit Conversions of Nonprofit Hospitals / 1997 Report to House of Delegates Furthermore, while many communities have included small proprietary hospitals in the past, and while some regional for-profit chains have existed for some time, the dominance of giant, national for-profit chains (largely as a result of regional chains and their expansion into new markets) is a recent phenomenon. Furthermore, for-profits are able to put some of their excess revenues into uncompensated care and community-oriented services and many do, particularly where they believe that this will increase their standing in the community. For-profit health care entities are by no means new, but in most communities they have until recently represented a small sector of the health care market. www.nursingworld.org /gova/hod97/forprofi.htm

hospital impact - April 2005, 28 Part of the increasing scrutiny around hospital pricing and billing practices is rooted in a misunderstanding of the world of non-profits. Through higher profits, non-profits can invest in new strategic initiatives to accomplish their mission in expanded and novel ways. Interestingly enough, non-profit managers need all the same skills that their for-profit counterparts need - finance, accounting, marketing, public relations, leadership, organizational development, you name it. www.hospitalimpact.org /index.php?m=20050428

27-66-4 (13) "Subscriber" means those persons or groups of persons who shall contract with a health insurance corporation, health maintenance organization, nonprofit hospital service corporation or nonprofit medical service corporation for health insurance. (11) "Not-for-profit corporation" means a corporation subject to chapter 6 of title 7, including any corporation organized under special provisions of the general laws or under a private act which is declared to be a "charitable corporation". (9) "Mutual insurance company" means a corporation in which shares are held exclusively by members to whom profits are distributed as dividends and members are both the insurer and the insured. www.rilin.state.ri.us /Statutes/Title27/27-66/27-66-4.HTM

4/00 - Grzejka - Commissioner of Revenue serve as trustee for non-profit hospital In my opinion, however, the office of commissioner of the revenue is not incompatible with serving as a trustee for a nonprofit hospital or as a member of a local transportation commission. You ask whether a commissioner of the revenue may serve on the board of trustees of a nonprofit hospital corporation and as a member of a local transportation commission. Accordingly, based on the limited facts presented, a commissioner of the revenue may also serve, without compensation, on the board of trustees of a nonprofit hospital corporation or as a member of a local transportation commission. www.vaag.com /media%20center/Opinions/2000opns/apr002.htm

USATODAY.com - Mexicans go to Ariz. for medical help University Medical Center, a non-profit hospital in Tucson, will spend an estimated $12 million this year on unreimbursed emergency care for foreign nationals, hospital president Greg Pivirotto says. Hospitals are required by law to treat all emergency patients, regardless of nationality or legal status. There is no hospital in that part of Mexico, so family members loaded Gomez in a car and drove him a short distance to the U.S. checkpoint. www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-05-17-arizona-mexicans_x.htm

USATODAY.com Hospitals say non-profits must pay good salaries to attract the best talent, drawing from a pool of executives who could work in a variety of industries, including the for-profit sector, where compensation often includes equity in the company. Hospital leaders say salaries are competitive with perks in for-profit America, but non-profit hospital salaries have become fodder for industry critics. Non-profit hospitals — already on the defensive over billing and collection practices against the uninsured — have another worry: how much the boss is paid. www.usatoday.com /printedition/money/20040930/salaries.art.htm

Public Policy Sources #35: The theory: why is private contracting beneficial Specifically, a hospital governed by such a binding agreement would perform as many procedures in a given year as a for-profit hospital, and would use the same mix of inputs (nurses, pharmaceuticals, technology, etc.) as a for-profit. Their fundamental point was that because a decisionmaker in a non-profit firm was unable to be rewarded in the form of profits for making good (i.e., profit-enhancing) decisions, she would tend to make different choices about the firm's operation than a comparable decisionmaker in a for-profit firm. In other words, rather than solely maximizing profits, managers in the non-profit setting may be willing to sacrifice profits in order to enhance their own pecuniary and nonpecuniary income. oldfraser.lexi.net /publications/pps/35/section_04.html

UConn-Team-Brief.doc In addition, nonprofit community hospitals provide the majority of care for their community’s indigent population.” Id. Furthermore the pricing decisions of non-profit hospital are based on financial requirements, not market prices, and therefore, tend to be lower than prices at for-profit hospitals. The primary goal of a non-profit hospital is also consumer welfare. See id. Given the nonprofit status of the hospitals and the concern for community service and aid, the court determined there was a "reasonable certainty" of the savings being passed on to consumers. www.gmu.edu /org/mootcourt/competitions/manne/UConn-Team-Brief.doc

Open Directory - Health: Medicine: Facilities: Hospitals: North America: United States: California Saint Francis Memorial Hospital (Spine Center) - Provides surgical and nonsurgical treatments for a wide range of spinal problems. BHC Fremont Hospital - A full-service psychiatric hospital. Centinela Hospital Medical Center - The center is a network of satellite facilities that span from West Los Angeles to throughout the South Bay. www.dmoz.org /Health/Medicine/Facilities/Hospitals/North_America/United_States/California

Network / Le Réseau A foreign for-profit health care company could charge that the Alberta law had an impact on federal law (the Canadian Health Act) and that the whole country was now open to for-profit hospitals. Harvard physicians Wollhandler and Himmelstein showed that 53% of the difference in cost between public and for-profit hospital care was due to higher administrative charges in commercial facilities. Getting back to our neighbours to the south, data analyses from all 5,201 acute care hospitals in the US found that for-profit hospitals were 25% more expensive than public not-for-profit facilities, a 1997 article in the New England Journal of Medicine found. www.cwhn.ca /network-reseau/3-1/3-1pg8.html

For-Profit Hospital News When for-profit hospitals dominate a region, total health costs are higher. "If all Medicare enrollees had lived in areas served by not-for-profit hospitals, we estimate that Medicare would have saved over $5 billion in 1995 alone," said Dr. Elaine Silverman. For-Profit Hospitals Deliver Inferior Care at Inflated Prices cthealth.server101.com /Old%20Universal%20Health%20Care/for-profit_hospital_news.htm

Question Period Transcript (For-Profit Hospital Study) Speaker, the Canadian Medical Association today published evidence that patients treated in for profit hospitals have a 2% higher risk of dying than those in not for profit hospitals. Speaker, the McMaster study, which shows that private hospital care increases death rates, is a call to action for the minister and the government. She also knows that under her watch private hospitals and clinics have opened up in Ontario, Alberta and BC. www.healthcoalition.ca /judy-alexa.html

6 More Class Action Lawsuits Filed Against Nonprofit Hospital Systems and Hospitals By Uninsured Patients Plaintiffs As Part of the Not-For-Profit Hospital Litigation Commenced Since June 17, 2004 After-tax profits for the average Florida hospital rose 156% between 1990 and 2001 and 38% between 2000 and 2001... Despite their surplus revenues and substantial federal, state, and local tax exemptions, Baptist Hospital has engaged in the pattern and practice of charging inordinate and inflated rates for medical care to the Plaintiff and the Class, who are uninsured Baptist patients. Plaintiff believes that certain members of the CHOP Board and/or top executives either individually or on behalf of for-profit organizations that they are affiliated with, receive benefits not generally available to the general public by virtue of their position which is a per se violation of Federal law. www.forrelease.com /D20040826/nyth087.P2.08262004123019.26745.html

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