Ownership
Map ownership relationships and compare private equity, nonprofit, public, and other hospital structures.
Dashboard in developmentIndependent healthcare research
Who owns our hospitals—and what changes?
An evidence-focused project exploring how ownership structures, financial pressure, and changing interest rates relate to hospital performance and patient care.
Research areas
Four connected questions
Financial records, ownership data, and quality measures become more useful when viewed together—not as isolated scorecards.
Financial performance
Examine margins, leverage, liquidity, and operating trends using Medicare cost-report data.
Dashboard in developmentQuality of care
Connect facility-level performance with available patient outcomes and safety measures.
Dashboard in developmentInterest-rate pressure
Study whether changing borrowing costs amplify financial strain or alter operating choices.
Analysis in developmentGeography
Explore variation across states, markets, and individual facilities through interactive views.
Dashboard in developmentHospital profiles
Bring financial, ownership, and quality indicators together for transparent facility comparisons.
Explorer in developmentMethodology
From public records to useful evidence
The project is designed for traceability: source data, transformations, definitions, and limitations will be documented alongside every analysis.
01 / COLLECT
Public datasets
Gather hospital financial, ownership, and quality records from authoritative sources.
02 / STANDARDIZE
Clean and connect
Normalize facility identifiers, reporting periods, measures, and ownership relationships.
03 / ANALYZE
Test relationships
Compare trends carefully while distinguishing association from causation.
04 / SHARE
Open the results
Publish accessible dashboards with definitions, caveats, and reproducible methods.
Explore the data
Interactive dashboards
Your public Metabase dashboard will live here, so visitors can investigate the findings without encountering a login screen.
Ready to connect
Add the first public Metabase dashboard
Once you provide its public-sharing URL, this panel can be replaced with a live, interactive dashboard embedded directly in the site.
Clear analysis for a complicated healthcare system.
This independent research project brings together public information that is often difficult to connect. Its goal is to make questions about hospital ownership, financial resilience, and care quality easier to examine—and the underlying evidence easier to understand.
The site is a work in progress. Findings will be presented with their definitions, assumptions, and limitations, and updated as the underlying research develops.
CMS Cost ReportsCare ComparePublic ownership recordsEconomic data