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12-28-2008, 04:07 AM | #1 |
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Hospitals ill from more bad debt, credit troubles.
Hospitals ill from more bad debt, credit troubles
Saturday December 27, 9:31 pm ET By Linda A. Johnson, AP Business Writer Hospitals ailing from fewer paying patients, investment losses, tight credit and other ills TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Gainesville's first community hospital has been on life support since the Shands Healthcare system in northern Florida bought it a dozen years ago. Now, because of the recession, the plug is being pulled on 80-year-old, money-losing Shands AGH. Next fall, its eight-hospital not-for-profit parent company will shut the 220-bed hospital and shift staff and patients to a newer, bigger teaching hospital nearby as part of an effort to save $65 million over three years across the system. Like many U.S. hospitals, Shands is being squeezed by tight credit, higher borrowing costs, investment losses and a jump in patients -- many recently unemployed or otherwise underinsured -- not paying their bills. All that has begun to trigger more hospital closings -- from impoverished Newark, N.J., to wealthy Beverly Hills, Calif. -- as well as layoffs, other cost-cutting and scrapping or delaying building projects. More closings and mergers are on the way, industry consultants predict. For the rest of the story http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081227/meltdown_hospitals.html |
12-28-2008, 08:20 AM | #2 |
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Re: Hospitals ill from more bad debt, credit troubles.
Nothing new there.
I had a PUBLIC hospital shot out from under me in 1985 and a private for profit go under in 1995. They are always crying the blues. The for profits guilty of dumping and the tax supported guilty of neglect. Like I said in another post, heal thyself pilgrim. Or better yet, don't get sick to being with. Adopt the Vietnamese attitude; a hospital is a place that you go to die. Xin lỗi, nhắc lại được không? |
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