Community Hospitals

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America's hospitals are a central element of its health care system, employing 3.5 million people and constituting the single largest category of national health spending (44 percent, or $305 billion, in 1991). No other country has such a heterogeneous collection of institutions making up its hospital system. The dominant type in the United States is the community hospital. In this category the American Hospital Association includes “all nonfederal short-term general and other special (obstetrics and gynecology; eye, ear, nose and throat; rehabilitation and orthopedic) hospitals, whose services are available to the public”1. These institutions currently number 5342 (3175 private . . .

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