proprietary hospital

It had been an old, respected, university- affiliated, proprietary hospital in its previous life.

"Plainview had been a proprietary hospital and it was in pretty bad shape," he said.

In 1966, the hospital transitioned from a proprietary hospital to a nonprofit organization.

In 2004 Mitrais entered the health industry, developing a proprietary hospital management information system which it sells in several countries.

Surplus Funds Recycled Some of the profits earned by proprietary hospitals may be distributed to stockholders.

It was an institution acquired by GHP when the corporation purchased an associated acute-care proprietary hospital.

The federation says the House bill would shift $70 million a year to 700 proprietary hospitals and 550 nonprofit hospitals that pay property taxes or similar fees.

In 1911 the hospital closed, and was reopened in 1913 as a proprietary hospital in the Colonial Inn, by Miss Elizbeth Swartz.

It is of keen interest to proprietary hospitals represented by Thomas A. Scully, president of the Federation of American Health Systems.

Many nonprofit hospitals appear to be "cruising by on an unjustifiable public subsidy" and can hardly be distinguished from proprietary hospitals, which seek to make profits, he said in a breakfast meeting with reporters.

This time, only 10 hospitals in the state exceeded predicted ranges - Nassau County Medical Center and Parsons Hospital, a small proprietary hospital in Queens, and eight municipal hospitals.

He acknowledged that some of his members would be "ecstatic" to see their nonprofit competitiors lose their tax advantage, but he said the industry could not afford a divisive fight between nonprofit and proprietary hospitals.

Mr. Hendricks and local hospital officials calculate that the number of patients staying longer than medically required ranges from 5 to 7 percent of the 35,000 short-term, acute-care beds in the city's municipal, nonprofit and proprietary hospitals.

Although the city declines to estimate the effect of the reimbursement penalties on its municipal hospitals, Mr. Raske projects that the nonpropfit and proprietary hospitals in his organization will lose at least $6 million in the coming year, "putting us further in the red."

Charter Medical Corp., Macon, Ga., which owns and operates proprietary hospitals, said a management group led by William A. Fickling, company chairman, had lowered its takeover offer for the company to $28 a share in cash and $5 of a subordinate debt issue.