Quality Chain Corporate

Paper Stats:    Abstract Views: 96    Downloads: 17 Nursing Home Quality, Chain Affiliation, Profit Status and Performance Prudential Real Estate Investors Florida Gulf Coast University - Department of Accounting, Finance & Business Law Florida Gulf Coast University - Department of Accounting, Finance & Business Law Cleveland State University   Abstract:      This study uses Florida nursing home data to examine several issues about the efficiency of nursing homes. Chain affiliation is examined as is profit status. For the first time quality of care is also included, due to the uniqueness of the data which contains quality scores. Without controlling for quality, for-profit firms and chain affiliated firms are shown to be slightly more efficient than their independent and non-profit counterparts. However, chain affiliated firms scored lower on quality than independents and for-profit firms scored lower on quality than non-profit firms. When controlling for quality, the profit status of the firm and ro...