10:501:260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: American Hospital Association, Florida Hospital, Prime Healthcare Services
30 Oct 2017
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Sources that shaped the hospital industry: health insurance, specialization, and hospital. Growth and decline in number of hospitals in u. s: 1873: 178 hospitals, 1909: 4,300 hospitals, 1946: over 6,000 hospitals, 1946: hill-burton act- expansions and new construction through 1980s yielded a high point of approx. 7,200 acute-care hospitals: 1980s: medical advances transferred procedures to ambulatory settings, cost containment reduced numbers to a little over 5,600 through mergers and closures which we are still seeing today. Hospitals by ownership status (2016: all u. s. Some interesting facts: the five largest for-profit hospital operators include, 1. ) Community health systems (brentwood, tenn. ): 196 hospitals: 2. ) Hospital corporation of america (nashville, tenn. ): 165 hospitals: 3. ) Lifepoint health (brentwood, tenn. ): 70 hospitals, which includes acute care facilities within brentwood, tenn. -based duke lifepoint health: 5. ) Prime healthcare services (ontario, calif. ): 38 hospitals: the five largest nonprofit hospital systems include, 1. ) Ascension health (st. louis): 129 hospitals: 2. ) Catholic health initiatives (englewood, colo. ): 102 hospitals: 3. )
