The Religion That Gave Us the Hospital

"Roman Catholic and other church-run health care systems in the U.S. are more efficient and provide higher quality care than their secular counterparts, according to a new Thomson Reuters study," reports Joprdon J. Ballor — The Superiority of Christian Hospitals. "Our data suggest that the leadership of health systems owned by churches may be the most active in aligning quality goals and monitoring achievement of mission across the system," reads the report.