Non‐profit multi‐hospital organizations: challenges and prospects

Abstract

This study seeks to determine the relative importance of factors non‐profit hospital administrators rely on in their decisions to join a non‐profit multihospital organization (MO) and their assessments of an MO in satisfying these motives. A related objective of the study is to determine whether or not the administrators of different types of hospitals (i.e. general vs specialty, member of a national vs non‐national MO and church‐affiliated vs non‐church affiliated) differ in their judgements. The analytical framework of the importance‐performance technique is used in analyzing the data gathered from the top administrators of a nation‐wide sample of hospitals in the USA. Results and implications of the study are discussed.

Citation

Trogen, N. and Yavas, U. (2002), "Non‐profit multi‐hospital organizations: challenges and prospects", Journal of Management in Medicine, Vol. 16 No. 6, pp. 451-462. https://doi.org/10.1108/02689230210450007