Pictorial Source Notes V

Characteristics of U.S. Hospitals, 2004 (The Commonwealth Fund, March, 2006)

SUMMARY: A graph of the major types of hospitals that were present in 2004 and the network status of these hospitals

TOPIC: Should the government arrange for hospitals to network to help standardize the cost of health care?

CATEGORY: Institutional

PUBLICATION INFORMATION: The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation aimed at the encouragement of progress in the health care industry for all Americans. With independent research and an international research program the program is there to support the future of good health, and good health care.

AUTHOR: Anne Gauthier, Stephen C. Schoenbaum, Ilana Weinbaum, The Commonweath Fund

LOCATION: www.cmwf.org/Content/Charts/Report

ACCESSED: February 24, 2009

SUPPORT: American Hospital Association Resource Center

AUDIENCE & AGENDA: Used for research and analysis of public policy this graph, along with The Commonwealth Fund, is used by academics and business to become better acquainted with the health care system. Which things are working for America and which things seem to fail.

USEFULNESS: The graph shows the lack of networking that is present between hospitals (2004). There is also a division of how hospitals are funded many of which are by some sort of governmental support, or nonprofit. Illustrating that if the government was to come into the health care system there would not be a large change, seeing that they are present.

WORKS CITED: http://www.cmwf.org/Content/Charts/Report, http://www.commonwealthfund.org/About-Us.aspx, http://www.cmwf.org/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Fund, http://www.aha.org/aha/resource-center/index.html, http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=A.+Gauthier-+Characteristics+of+U.S.+Hospitals,+2004&hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=RF6&um=1&ie=UTF-8&oi=scholart, Toward a High Performance Health System for the United States, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Fund