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RESEARCH: Charlene Harrington, Steffie Woolhandler, Joseph Mullan, Helen Carrillo, and David U. Himmelstein Does Investor Ownership of Nursing Homes Compromise the Quality of Care? Am J Public Health 2001; 91: 1452-1455 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

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Unwise Conclusion

Jason Manne   (3 December 2001)

Unwise Conclusion 3 December 2001
Jason Manne, Attorney State Government Send letter to journal: Re: Unwise Conclusion JManne{at}state.pa.us Jason Manne	The authors end their otherwise well written article with the thoroughly unjustified conclusion that because profit-seeking nursing homes are, in the aggregate, of lesser quality that "it is unwise to entrust such vulnerable patients to profit-seeking firms." I dare say that I would prefer to be in the top rated proprietary facility than the bottom-rated non-profit. I suggest that the authors evidence a lack of clear thinking when they infer from aggregate measures of performance that no for-profit firms can be trusted with the care of vulnerable patients.