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Detractors, however, claim that the relative success of for-profit medical providers arises from their positioning themselves in the medical marketplace in such a manner as to offer mainly profitable care services for a largely affluent and insured clientele whilst avoiding unprofitable care areas.
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135:Canadian Medical Association Journal
145:The New England Journal of Medicine
227:Chandran, Prabha (July 15, 2016).
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62:Hospital Corporation of America
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605:Veterans medical facilities
346:Hospital information system
182:Jenny Gold (June 9, 2015).
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523:Tertiary referral hospital
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578:Limited class of patients
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78:Universal Health Services
193:Retrieved June 20, 2015.
156:For-profit hospitals in
833:Lists of hospitals in:
717:Rehabilitation hospital
590:Combat support hospital
465:Geographic service area
451:lying in houses (India)
341:Hospital administrators
542:Unique physical traits
506:Complexity of services
109:medical rehabilitation
74:Psychiatric Solutions
727:Verterinary hospital
712:Psychiatric hospital
564:Underground hospital
331:Emergency department
292:History of hospitals
44:non-profit hospitals
20:For-profit hospitals
736:Century established
682:Children's hospital
636:Non-profit hospital
631:For-profit hospital
626:Charitable hospital
439:HĂ´tel-Dieu (France)
366:Intensive care unit
707:Maternity hospital
656:Voluntary hospital
533:Specialty hospital
518:Secondary hospital
497:Municipal hospital
478:Community hospital
326:Coronary care unit
300:Category:Hospitals
117:emergency medicine
874:Private hospitals
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585:Military hospital
528:Teaching hospital
492:District hospital
488:Regional hospital
381:Operating theater
351:Hospital medicine
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610:Women's hospital
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455:Xenodochium
361:Hospitalist
428:Bimaristan
422:Asclepeion
371:Nocturnist
309:components
170:References
113:cardiology
436:(England)
430:(Islamic)
417:Almshouse
283:hospitals
244:article:
80:in 2010.
52:in 2015.
28:hospitals
868:Category
424:(Greece)
396:Pharmacy
391:Patients
24:investor
851:Oceania
661:Defunct
619:Funding
449:Vaishya
445:(Roman)
386:Orderly
242:Wikinfo
132:in the
91:in the
26:-owned
843:Europe
835:Africa
677:Cancer
124:Canada
68:, and
401:Wards
158:India
152:India
66:Tenet
839:Asia
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818:20th
813:19th
808:18th
803:17th
798:16th
793:15th
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783:13th
778:12th
773:11th
768:10th
138:and
97:cost
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