Non-Profit Health Care Organizations Provide Better Quality Care Than For-Profit Organizations

July 24, 2006 Non-Profit Health Care Organizations Provide Better Quality Care Than For-Profit Organizations Non-profit nursing homes and hospitals on average provide a higher quality of care when compared with for-profit organizations. Non-profit hospitals tend to have lower death rates than for-profits. For-profit hospitals are better at keeping costs down. These are findings of a study entitled, “How Nonprofits Matter in American Medicine, And What to Do About it ,” by Mark Schlesinger and Bradford H. Gray. The researchers conducted a review of 162 studies of the differences between non-profit and for-profit . . .