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

The Medical News ·
Health & Medicine United Kingdom

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.

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