Table 4.
Other Hospital Characteristics of Pioneer Hospital Clusters
| Pioneer - high ambulatory services & health IT |
Pioneer - low ambulatory services but high health IT |
Pioneer - low health IT |
Pioneer - high ambulatory services, tight MD alignment, & health IT |
Pioneer - high loose MD alignment & health IT |
Pioneer - Overall |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of staffed and set-up hospital beds |
315 | 230 | 267 | 420 | 234 | 274 |
| Ownership Type | ||||||
| Not-for-profit | 90.0% | 95.0% | 100% | 85.7% | 77.8% | 91.9% |
| Other ownership | 10.0% | 5.0% | 0 | 14.3% | 22.2% | 8.1% |
| Teaching Hospital | ||||||
| Yes (COTH member or residency programs) |
43.3% | 22.5% | 30.8% | 57.1% | 44.4% | 34.4% |
| No | 56.7% | 77.5% | 69.2% | 42.9% | 55.6% | 65.7% |
| Multi-Hospital System Member*** | ||||||
| Yes | 63.3% | 92.3% | 100% | 42.9% | 55.6% | 77.6% |
| No | 36.7% | 7.7% | 0 | 57.1% | 44.4% | 22.5% |
| Geographic Location** | ||||||
| Urban area | 93.3% | 97.5% | 76.9% | 71.4% | 100% | 91.9% |
| Rural area | 6.7% | 2.5% | 23.1% | 28.6% | 0 | 8.1% |
| Number of hospitals | 30 | 40 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 99 |
*
characteristic significantly different at p<.10 level across clusters.
**
characteristic significantly different at p<.05 level across clusters.
***
characteristic significantly different a p<.01 level across clusters.
Note: to test for significant differences across clusters, chi-square tests were used for categorical variables and ANOVA used for continuous variables.