This study aims to know, if the Jordanian private hospitals using the competitive dimensions to achieve competitive advantage, the Study populations consists of all managers at the Jordanian private hospital, were as the sample consisting of (200) managers. The simple statistical methods were used like repetitions, percentages, means, standard deviations, and multiple liner regression .The results showed that the Jordanian private hospitals used all the competition dimensions to achieve competitive advantages ,the competition dimensions :( cost, flexibility, and delivery) influencing on quality of medical services,and they don’t use the competition dimensions: (cost, quality, flexibility, and delivery) at the same degree.on the light of results the researcher recommends to make more attention to used all the competition dimensions at the same level ,and introduce other and new competition dimensions to achieve more competition advantages.
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