Miami-Dade - Insane Trends in Health Care Cost

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                    Miami Dade Hospitals
  Trends -
Salaries versus Patient Care Costs+
              +Hospital's Operating Costs
                  (Per Adjusted Admission)
  
                                                  1998              2008 %               CPI  32%
U of Miami Clinic Salaries   $3,302          $4,794                45%
Patient Care Costs               $4,374          $18,642              326%  (1)
Miami Children's                   $6,635          $7,135                8%
Costs                                       $11,378        $16,250              43%
Jackson                                  $5,111          $7,273                42%
Costs                                       $10,817        $15,593             44%
South Miami                           $2,479          $4,370               76%
Costs                                       $5,767          $13,500             134%   (4)
Baptist                                     $2,668          $4,652               74%
Costs                                       $6,236          $13,349             114%   (6)
Mount Sinai                            $3,163          $4,497               42%
Costs                                       $7,210          $12,955             80%     (10)
Doctors'                                  $2,201          $4,158               89%
Costs                                       $5,944          $12,377             108%   (7)
U of Miami                               $2,262*         $3,252               44%
Costs                                       $5,614*         $10,640             90%     (9)
Mercy                                       $2,885          $3,920                36%
Costs                                       $6,137          $10,504              71%     (11)
Homestead                             $1,705          $3,379                98%
Costs                                       $4,283           $10,384             142%   (3)
Aventura                                 $1,732           $2,683                55%
Costs                                       $4,494           $8,770                95%    (8)
Coral Gables                          $1,944           $2,927                51%
Costs                                       $5,722           $8,669                52%
Palmetto                                  $1,844           $2,640               43%
Costs                                       $4,670           $7,846                68%     (12)
Kendall                                    $1,807           $2,484                37%
Costs                                       $3,456           $7,816                126%   (5)
Larkin                                      $1,964           $3,733                90%      (2)
Costs                                       $4,698           $7,620                62%
North Shore                           $4,820           $2,827                (41%)
Costs                                       $2.221           $7,058                218% (2)
Hialeah                                    $1,887           $2,591                37%
Costs                                       $4,374           $6,973                59%
Metropolitan                          $2,680**         $3,104               16%
Costs                                       $5,172            $6,742               30%
Westchester                          $2,916            $3,104                6%
Costs                                      $6,619             $6,538                0%
Palm Springs                        $1,654             $2,498               51%
Costs                                       $4,140            $5,747               39%
*Then Cedars Medical **Then Pan American Hospital
SOURCE: Agency for Health Care Administration
 

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