TABLE 2—
Hospital Institutional Characteristics and Community Benefit Expenditures, Total Sample and by Community Health Needs Quartile: United States, 2009
| Variable | Total Sample, n = 1522, Means or Frequencies (SD) | Quartile 1 (Lowest Health Need), n = 381, Means or Frequencies (SD) | Quartile 2, n = 381, Means or Frequencies (SD) | Quartile 3, n = 377, Means or Frequencies (SD) | Quartile 4 (Greatest Health Need), n = 383, Means or Frequencies (SD) |
| Hospital operating characteristics | |||||
| No. of beds* | 199 (196) | 184 (156) | 200 (227) | 200 (183) | 212 (210) |
| Teaching hospitals, % | 7.6 (26.4) | 6.3 (24.3) | 9.2 (29.0) | 6.4 (24.5) | 8.2 (27.5) |
| Urban location, %* | 64.5 (47.9) | 75.1 (43.3) | 62.1 (48.6) | 61.9 (48.6) | 59.1 (49.2) |
| Sole community provider, %* | 9.7 (29.5) | 7.9 (27.0) | 8.4 (27.8) | 11.9 (32.5) | 10.5 (30.7) |
| Profit margin* | 2.5 (13.8) | 4.3 (8.1) | 3.4 (9.2) | 1.2 (18.3) | 1.2 (16.5) |
| Hospital community benefit expenditures | |||||
| Direct patient care benefit as % of total expenditures | 6.3 (5.4) | 5.7 (3.7) | 6.0 (4.1) | 6.4 (5.9) | 6.9 (7.2) |
| Community health improvement initiatives as % of total expenditures | 0.6 (2.8) | 0.8 (5.1) | 0.5 (1.0) | 0.5 (1.0) | 0.5 (1.6) |
| Total community benefit as % of total expenditures | 7.2 (6.3) | 6.8 (6.2) | 7.1 (4.7) | 7.2 (6.1) | 7.8 (7.6) |
Note. We calculated community health needs quartiles using the global community health needs indicator.
*P < .01 for analysis of variance between quartiles.