{"title":"Southern hospitals keep the heat on.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Southern hospitals continue four-year reign at top of HCIA/Mercer 100 Top Hospitals list. Fierce managed care competition in some Southern states results in top-notch care. In the West, study found that lengths of stay are actually rising as levels of managed care increase.</p>","PeriodicalId":79946,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare benchmarks","volume":"6 6","pages":"64-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1999-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Healthcare benchmarks","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Southern hospitals continue four-year reign at top of HCIA/Mercer 100 Top Hospitals list. Fierce managed care competition in some Southern states results in top-notch care. In the West, study found that lengths of stay are actually rising as levels of managed care increase.