Hospitals

HSC research focuses on the role hospitals play in local health care markets, including pricing and competitive strategies and hospital capacity expansions.

Title	Date	Document Info
Initial Findings from HSC's 2005 Site Visits: Stage Set for Growing Health Care Cost and Access ProblemsCara S. Lesser, Paul B. Ginsburg, Laurie E. Felland	August 2005	Issue Brief No. 97
Intense Competition and Rising Costs Dominate Cleveland's Health Care MarketSuzanne Felt-Lisk, Jon B. Christianson, Linda R. Brewster, Ashley C. Short, Richard Sorian, Robert E. Hurley, Lawrence D. Brown, Gigi Y. Liu	Winter 2003	Community Report No. 2
Introduction to the Community Reports	Summer 1999	Compilation of Round Two Site Visits
Key Findings from HSC's 2010 Site VisitsLaurie E. Felland, Joy M. Grossman, Ha T. Tu	May 2011	Issue Brief No. 135
Lansing's Calm Health Care Market Belies Increased Competition, Economic DoldrumsAaron Katz, Melanie Au, Gary Claxton, Joy M. Grossman, Robert E. Hurley, Jessica H. May	October 2005	Community Report No. 8
Lansing's Dominant Hospital, Health Plan Strengthen Market PositionsHa T. Tu, Grace Anglin, Dori A. Cross, Laurie E. Felland, Joy M. Grossman, Lucy B. Stark	March 2011	Community Report No. 7
Leadership Changes Reinvigorate Cleveland's Health Care MarketSally Trude, Gloria J. Bazzoli, Jon B. Christianson, Anneliese M. Gerland, Andrea Staiti, Erin Fries Taylor	June 2005	Community Report No. 1
Leapfrog Patient-Safety Standards are a Stretch for Most HospitalsKelly Devers, Gigi Y. Liu	February 2004	Issue Brief No. 77
Little Rock Health Care Safety Net Stretched by Economic DownturnJon B. Christianson, Emily Carrier, Marisa K. Dowling, Ian Hill, Ralph C. Mayrell, Tracy Yee	January 2011	Community Report No. 5
Little Rock Providers Vie for Revenues, as High Health Care Costs ContinueAaron Katz, Joy M. Grossman, Robert E. Hurley, Jessica H. May, Len M. Nichols, Bradley C. Strunk	July 2005	Community Report No. 3
Long Island Follows Bumpy New York Road to National Health ReformHa T. Tu, Chapin White, Ellyn R. Boukus, Kevin Draper	September 2013	RWJF Reform Community Report
Managed Care Rebound? Recent Changes in Health Plans' Cost Containment StrategiesGlen P. Mays, Gary Claxton, Justin White	Aug. 11, 2004	Journal Article Health Affairs
Market Developments Signal Cost Hikes in GreenvilleSuzanne Felt-Lisk, Jon B. Christianson, Linda R. Brewster, Ashley C. Short, Richard Sorian, Robert E. Hurley, Lawrence D. Brown, Jessica H. May	Spring 2003	Community Report No. 6
Minneapolis-St. Paul: Health Care Market Overcomes Early State Resistance to National ReformLaurie E. Felland, Robert Mechanic, Amanda E. Lechner, Rebecca Gourevitch	August 2013	RWJF Reform Community Report
Navigating a Changing Health System	July 2002	2001 Annual Report
Northern New Jersey Health Care Market Reflects Urban-Suburban ContrastsLaurie E. Felland, Grace Anglin, Amelia M. Bond, Gary Claxton, Ann S. O'Malley, Caroleen W. Quach	December 2010	Community Report No. 4
Physician Visits After Hospital Discharge: Implications for Reducing ReadmissionsAnna Sommers, Peter J. Cunningham, Deborah Alvarez	December 2011	NIHCR Research Brief No. 6
Physicians Key to Health Maintenance Organization Popularity in Orange CountyLaurie E. Felland, Genna R. Cohen, Paul B. Ginsburg, Elizabeth A. November, Ha T. Tu, Tracy Yee	August 2011	Community Report No. 10
Population Growth, Economic Downturn Stress Phoenix's Health Care CapacityAshley C. Short, Jon B. Christianson, Debra A. Draper, Linda R. Brewster, Robert E. Hurley, Richard Sorian, Lawrence D. Brown, Gigi Y. Liu	Summer 2003	Community Report No. 10
Portland, Oregon: Health Insurance Market Geared Up for National Health ReformsHa T. Tu, Robert Mechanic, Ellyn R. Boukus, Kevin Draper	July 2013	RWJF Reform Community Report