The overall objective of this research was to analyze the effect
of ownership status on 1) quality of care delivered, 2) the cost of
nursing homes in the United States and 3) wages to Registered Nurses.
The model developed here uses a two stage least squares technique to
correct for observed endogeneity problems. Results show that a model
which includes ownership classification interactively with all
independent variables, performs better than a model which simply uses
dummies to proxy for ownership status.
Nonprofit homes were found to have higher direct patient care
expenditures than profit homes. Non-profits were also found to have a
more specialized nursing force. Both of these results suggest that
non-profits may actually provide a higher quality of care than for profit
enterprises. No support was found for the hypothesis that nonprofits
have more philanthropic wage policies. / Graduation date: 1996
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/34932 |
| Date | 06 December 1995 |
| Creators | Rosetti, Maureen C. O'Keeffe |
| Contributors | McMullen, B. Starr |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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