Study: Nonprofit health systems score higher in quality than for-profits

New research shows significant variation in the quality of care provided by health systems across the country. In the findings, nonprofit health systems had, on average, quality scores 7% higher than for-profit health systems, and more centralized health systems had 5% higher overall quality scores than decentralized health systems. For the study, researchers with the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement analyzed data from more than 70 U.S. health systems.