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Table 2 Mean Comparison of Hospital Bed Characteristics by Ownership, 2008 and 2017

From: For-profit hospitals as anchor institutions in the United States: a study of organizational stability

	2008				2017
	For-profit		Other ownership		For-profit		Other ownership
	N	Mean	N	Mean	N	Mean	N	Mean
FTE per bed^a	629	4.41*	3541	5.79	629	5.39*	3712	6.56
RNs per bed	629	1.34*	3541	1.41	629	1.82	3712	1.76
Payroll per bed	629	$220,353*	3541	$302,499	629	$339,260*	3711	$428,565
Benefits per bed	629	$48,666*	3541	$78,471	629	$75,187*	3712	$113,946

^a Boldface indicates statistical significance using two-tailed independent samples T-Test (*p < .05)

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