Publications by authors named "Sonia Arnold"
Importance: Hospital consolidations have been shown not to improve quality on average.
Objective: To assess a full-integration approach to hospital mergers based on quality metrics in a safety net hospital acquired by an urban academic health system.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This quality improvement study analyzed outcomes for all nonpsychiatric, nonrehabilitation, non-newborn patients discharged between September 1, 2010, and August 31, 2019, at a US safety net hospital that was acquired by an urban academic health system in January 2016.