For-Profit Hospitals Linked to Worse Patient Outcomes and Nurse Staffing Shortfalls, New Study Finds

For-Profit Hospitals Linked to About 11 More Deaths per 1,000 Medical Patients and Unsafe Nurse Workloads

A Penn Nursing study of 941 hospitals links for-profit ownership to about 11 more deaths per 1,000 medical patients, with nurse understaffing tied to much of the gap.

Inadequate nurse staffing drives worse patient outcomes in for-profit hospitals

Patients treated at for-profit hospitals experienced higher mortality and readmission rates, while nurses working in those hospitals reported less safe staffing and substantially worse working conditions, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.

For-profit hospitals linked to worse patient outcomes and nurse staffing shortfalls, new study finds

Patients treated at for-profit hospitals experienced higher mortality and readmission rates, while nurses working in those hospitals reported less safe staffing and substantially worse working conditions, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.

For-Profit Hospitals Linked to Worse Patient Outcomes and Nurse Staffing Shortfalls, New Penn Nursing Study Finds

Patients treated at for-profit hospitals experienced higher mortality and readmission rates, while nurses working in those hospitals reported less safe staffing and substantially worse working conditions, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.