Safety-net hospitals’ disproportionate share

Safety-net hospitals’ disproportionate share-politico: America’s Essential Hospitals, widely recognized as taking on a disproportionate amount of uncompensated care, are also doing a large share of trauma and psychiatric care and physician training, according to a report released Monday by the association. The group has 250 of the more than 5,700 hospitals in the country but provide about 17 percent of all uncompensated care, totaling $7.7 billion in 2012.