15. Hospitals. From data in Hospital Statistics, published by the American Hospital Association, we obtained the following contingency table for U.S. hospitals and nursing homes by type of facility and type of control. We used the abbreviations Gov for Government, Prop for Proprietary, and NP for nonprofit.
Control
Gov Prop NP Total
Facility
General 1697 660 3046 5403
Psychiatric 266 358 113 737
Chronic 21 1 4 26
Tuberculosis 3 0 1 4
Other 59 148 203 410
Total 2046 1167 3367 6580
In the following questions, the term hospital refers to either a hospital or nursing home:
a. How many hospitals are government controlled?
b. How many hospitals are psychiatric facilities?
c. How many hospitals are government controlled psychiatric facilities?
d. How many general facilities are nonprofit?
e. How many hospitals are not under proprietary control?
f. How many hospitals are either general facilities or under proprietary control?