Good news about Catholic Health Care

Catholic-owned U.S. health systems “had significantly better quality performance” than investor-owned, for-profit systems, says a national study by Thomson Reuters as reported in the National Catholic Reporter.

The study found that other church-based systems ranked slightly behind Catholic systems. Secular not-for-profit systems ranked third, and for-profits came in last among the four types of ownership.

Thomson Reuters is a leading analyst of business and leadership practices in health care, science, media, and a wide range of other fields.

Its analysis, “Differences in Health System Quality Performance by Ownership,” was based on a study of 255 U.S. health systems, each of which included at least two short-term, general, acute-care hospitals in its system.