Background: Attracting outstanding medical professionals contributes to the creation of a medical competitive advantage. This study attempts to compare private and non-profit proprietary hospitals in terms of the connection between hospital image and compensation/benefit system on organizational attractiveness. Methods: The questionnaire survey method was adopted in this study, with employees f...

We examine the evolving structure of the US hospital industry since 1970, focusing on how ownership form influences entry and exit behavior. We develop theoretical predictions based on the model of Lakdawalla and Philipson, in which for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals differ regarding their objectives and costs of capital. The model predicts for-profits would be quicker to enter and exit th...

The rise of the for-profit hospital industry has opened a debate about the level of community benefits provided by non-profit hospitals. Do nonprofits provide enough community benefits to justify the community's commitment of resources to them, and the tax-exempt status they receive? If nonprofit hospitals convert to for-profit entities, would community benefits be lost in the transaction? This...

Hastaneler, bireylerin sağlığını koruma, iyileştirme, engelini ortadan kaldırma vb. ihtiyaçlarının karşılanabilmesi için üretim faktörlerini birlikte kullanarak tedavi edici ve koruyucu sağlık hizmetlerinin üretilip pazarlanma amacı güden işletmelerdendir. Her sektörde olduğu gibi sektöründe de sermaye sahipleri yatırımlarından maksimum kâr beklerler. Hastane yöneticileri tüm finans bu amaç doğ...

We investigated the effects of privatization on hospital efficiency in Germany. To do so, we obtained boot-strapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) efficiency scores in the first stage of our analysis and subsequently employed a difference-in-difference matching approach within a panel regression framework. Our findings show that conversions from public to private for-profit status were associa...