TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Purpose and Use of the Study -- The Hospital Industry -- The Classification of Hospitals -- Part I. Governmental Patterns -- GOVERNMENTAL HOSPITALS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE -- Federal Hospitals -- State Governmental Hospitals -- Local Governmental Hospitals -- FEDERAL HOSPITALS -- United States Army Hospitals -- United States Naval Hospitals -- United States Air Force Hospitals -- Veterans Administration Hospitals -- The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and the United States Public Health Service -- STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL HOSPITALS -- State Hospitals -- District Hospitals -- County Hospitals -- City-County Hospitals -- City Hospitals -- Part II. Nongovernmental Patterns -- NONGOVERNMENTAL HOSPITALS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE -- Nonprofit Hospitals -- Church Hospitals -- Other Nonprofit Hospitals -- Proprietary Hospitals -- NONPROFIT HOSPITALS: CHURCH AFFILIATED -- Roman Catholic Hospitals -- Lutheran Hospitals -- Methodist Hospitals -- Presbyterian Hospitals -- Baptist Hospitals -- Latter-Day Saints Hospitals -- OTHER NONPROFIT HOSPITALS -- Community Hospitals -- Jewish Hospitals -- Industrial Hospitals -- Cooperative Hospitals -- The Miners Memorial Hospital Association -- The Kaiser Foundation -- The Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children -- ADDENDUM: OSTEOPATHIC HOSPITALS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.