Background: Currently there is a lot of debate about the advantages and disadvantages of
for-profit health care delivery. We examined staffing ratios for direct-care and support staff in …

Background Long-term care facilities (nursing homes) in British Columbia consist of a mix of
for-profit, not-for-profit non-government, and not-for-profit health-region-owned …

Ontario has the highest proportion of for-profit nursing homes in Canada. These facilities,
which are known in Ontario as long-term care (LTC) homes, offer 24-hour custodial as well …

prove care outcomes. Whatever the reason, however, any possible advantage of larger
administrative groupings does not appear to extend to for-profit facilities. Differences in …

Objectives: This study investigated whether for-profit (FP) versus not-for-profit (NP)
ownership of long-term care facilities resulted in a difference in hospital admission and …

Background Nursing homes provide long-term housing, support and nursing care to frail
elders who are no longer able to function independently. Although studies conducted in the …

Objectives To establish if proprietary status (ie, for-profit or not-for-profit) is associated with
mortality and hospitalizations among publicly funded long-term care (nursing) homes …

We provide descriptive statistics for data collected via the Residential Care Facilities Survey
(RCFS), from long-term care (LTC) facilities operating in Ontario between 1996 and 2002 …

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A matched sample of 24 proprietary and 24 nonprofit nursing homes in the state of
Washington was surveyed to determine the quantity and types of staffing and differences in …