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Report: Readmissions higher at for-profit hospitals
10/16/14 Andrew Boyd Title Assistant Professor Department General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine Title Assistant Professor Department Biomedical and Health Information Sciences
Patients at for-profit hospitals are more likely to be readmitted than those receiving care at non-profit or public hospitals. That’s according to a new study from researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, which looked at general-acute non-profit, public and for-profit hospitals across the country.