Smoke without Fire: Nursing Facility Closures in California, 1997–2001

This paper draws from a rich longitudinal California data set to analyze the scope and nature of nursing home closures between 1997 and 2001, and to present a Cox proportionate hazards model of the risks of closure that arise from a range of facility and market characteristics. When compared with th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Martin Kitchener, Alan Bostrom, Charlene Harrington
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2004-05-01
Series:Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5034/inquiryjrnl_41.2.189