In recent years,hospitals have
A) reduced the number of outpatient surgeries they perform.
B) shifted to treating an older and sicker mix of patients.
C) stopped serving as primary care providers for the poor.
D) abandoned the practice of patient dumping.
E) increasingly moved to nonprofit status.

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According to the passage, hospitals have shifted to treating an older and sicker mix of patients in recent years, indicating that they are not reducing the number of outpatient surgeries they perform, stopping to serve as primary care providers for the poor, abandoning the practice of patient dumping, or increasingly moving to nonprofit status.

In Recent Years,hospitals Have