In Recent Years,hospitals Have

question 7

Multiple Choice

In recent years,hospitals have

• A) reduced the number of outpatient surgeries they perform.
• B) shifted to treating an older and sicker mix of patients.
• C) stopped serving as primary care providers for the poor.
• D) abandoned the practice of patient dumping.
• E) increasingly moved to nonprofit status.

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