Table 1.
Sample hospital demographics
| Hospital size | |
| Small hospitals with fewer than 100 beds | 217 (18.3) |
| Medium sized hospitals with 100-399 beds | 723(60.9) |
| Large hospitals with 400+ beds | 248 (20.9) |
| System Membership | |
| Nonsystem hospital | 189 (15.9) |
| System member hospital | 999 (84.1) |
| Teaching status | |
| Nonteaching hospital | 511 (43.0) |
| Teaching hospital | 677 (57.0) |
| Hospital location | |
| Located in an urban area | 1049 (88.3) |
| Located in a rural area | 139 (11.7) |
| Region | |
| West | 310 (26.1) |
| Midwest | 217 (18.3) |
| South | 425 (35.8) |
| Northeast | 236 (19.9) |
| Hospital ownership | |
| Public, nonfederal hospital | 127 (10.7) |
| Private, nonprofit hospital | 789 (66.4) |
| Private, for-profit hospital | 272 (22.9) |
Values are n (%). Because not all hospitals in our sample responded to the AHA Survey, the denominator was limited to 1188 hospitals