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Front Matter i-xxiv
Part I: Committee Report 1-2
1 Profits and Health Care: An Introduction to the Issues 3-25
2 Changes in Ownership, Control, and Configuration 26-46
3 Financial Capital and Health Care Growth Trends 47-73
4 Investor Ownership and the Costs of Medical Care 74-96
5 Access to Care and Investor-Owned Providers 97-126
6 Quality of Care 127-141
7 Implications for Education and Research 142-150
8 Physicians and Entrepreneurism in Health Care 151-170
9 The Changing Nature of Physician Influence in Medical Institutions 171-181
10 Summary and Conclusions 182-206
Part II: Papers on For-Profit Enterprises in Health Care 207-208
1 An Exchange on For-Profit Health Care 209-223
2 Ethical Issues in For-Profit Health Care 224-249
3 Trends in the Growth of the Major Investor-Owned Hospital Companies 250-259
4 The Effects of Ownership and Multihospital System Membership on Hospital Functional Strategies and Economic Performance 260-289
An Analysis Based on California Data, 1978-1982 290-302
6 Hospital Acquision and Their Effects: Florida, 1979-1982 303-321
7 Hospital Ownership and Comparative Hospital Costs 322-353
8 Medicare Patient Outcomes and Hospital Organizational Mission 354-374
9 Compliance of Multihospital Systems with Standards of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals 375-384
10 Hospital Ownership and the Practice of Medicine: Evidence from the Physician's Perspective 385-401
11 Physicial Participation in the Administration and Governance of System and Freestanding Hospitals: A Comparison by Type of Ownership 402-421
12 Medical Staff Size, Hospital Privileges, and Compensation Arrangements: A Comparison of System Hospitals 422-457
13 Hospitals and Their Communities: A Report on Three Case Studies 458-473
14 Investor-Owned Multihospital Systems: A Synthesis of Research Findings 474-491
15 The Changing Structure of the Nursing Home Industry and the Impact of Ownership on Quality, Cost, and Access 492-542
Index 543-556

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