Multihospital system

In Health services administration, Multihospital system is defined as “Institutional systems consisting of more than one health facility which have cooperative administrative arrangements through merger, affiliation, shared services, or other collective ventures.”^[1]

According to the American Hospital Association, a system is defined as “either a multihospital or a diversified single hospital system. A multihospital system is two or more hospitals owned, leased, sponsored, or contract managed by a central organization. Single, freestanding hospitals may be categorized as a system by bringing into membership three or more, and at least 25 percent, of their owned or leased non-hospital preacute or postacute health care organizations. System affiliation does not preclude network participation.” ^[2]

• Adventist Health System
• Ascension Health
• Carolinas Healthcare System
• Catholic Healthcare West
• Child Health Corporation of America [1]
• Hospital Corporation of America
• Kaiser Permanente
• Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
• McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University is a consortium of hospitals
• NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System
• ProMedica Health System
• Providence Health & Services
• Shriners Hospitals for Children
• SSM Health Care
• Sutter Health
• Tenet Healthcare
• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare

• Hospital network

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