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

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A study led by researchers at Penn Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research found that for-profit hospital patients had higher mortality and readmission rates. Nurses at those hospitals also reported less safe staffing levels and worse working conditions.

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.