The ensuing discussion is limited to short-term hospitals (at least 5o% of patients stay 30 days or less) unless otherwise stated, excluding federal, psychiatric, and tuberculosis hospitals.This subject matter corresponds to the American Hospital Association's (AHA) classification "Nonfederal, short-term general and other special" hospitals.It is primarily within this sphere that the current controversy over proprietaries exists.'Proprietary hospitals are those which are owned and operated for a profit by individuals, partnerships, or corporations.Other major forms of ownership are voluntary nonprofit (under church or community sponsorship) and governmental (owned
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Steinwald et al. (1970) studied this question.