For-profit hospitals tied to more deaths, nurse understaffing: Study

Patients at for-profit hospitals had higher 30-day mortality and readmission rates than patients at nonprofit hospitals, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in Philadelphia. Nurses at for-profit hospitals were also more likely to rate their staffing as unsafe, which the researchers linked to part of the […] The post For-profit hospitals tied to more deaths, nurse understaffing: Study appeared first on Becker's Hospital Review | H...