Hospital safety-net status and postdischarge outcomes: The impact of socioeconomic status and Medicare post-acute care types.

The results suggested that safety-net hospitals had lower hospice/death rates but higher readmission rates relative to outcomes at nonsafety-net hospitals. Readmission rate differences were similar regardless of patients' SES status. However, the rate of hospice referral or death rate was related to SES, which suggested that the outcomes were affected by SES and PAC types.