Table 1.
Hospital Characteristics
| Hospital Characteristics | Safety-Net Hospital (N=334) |
Non-Safety- Net Hospital (N=646) |
P-value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Size | (%) | (%) | |
| Small [1–99 beds] | 18.3 | 31.7 | <0.001 |
| Medium [100–399 beds] | 53.0 | 53.3 | |
| Large [400+ beds] | 28.7 | 15.0 | |
| Teaching Status | |||
| Teaching | 49.1 | 31.1 | <0.001 |
| Non-teaching | 50.9 | 68.9 | |
| Ownership | |||
| For-profit | 20.7 | 16.7 | <0.001 |
| Non-profit | 79.3 | 83.3 | |
| Region | |||
| Northeast | 15.0 | 13.2 | 0.001 |
| Midwest | 15.3 | 26 | |
| South | 51.8 | 47.2 | |
| West | 18.0 | 13.6 | |
| Type of Location | |||
| Rural | 30.2 | 34.1 | 0.009 |
| Suburban | 0.6 | 3.9 | |
| Urban | 69.2 | 62.1 | |
| Race/Ethnicity | |||
| Black | 25.2 | 10.8 | <0.001 |
| Hispanic | 4.3 | 0.9 | <0.001 |
| Type of Insurance | |||
| Medicare | 39.1 | 49.4 | <0.001 |
| Medicaid | 28.9 | 16.4 | <0.001 |
| Mean Readmission Rate (CHF, PNA, MI) | 22.5 | 20.3 | <0.001 |
CHF=congestive heart failure; PNA=pneumonia; MI=myocardial infarction.