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Credit downgrades outnumbered upgrades for sixth straight year for U.S. not-for-profits: Moody's

More not-for-profit hospitals saw their credit ratings downgraded than upgraded in 2011, for the sixth consecutive year, according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service....

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Elective hope in a stagnant economy

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HCA completes acquisition of heart hospital

Jaimy Lee | February 01, 2012
HCA completed its acquisition of Galichia Heart Hospital, an 82-bed hospital in Wichita, Kan.
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Business conversion

Ashok Selvam | January 28, 2012
Catholic Healthcare West shed more than words when the 38-hospital system changed its name to Dignity Health. It dropped its formal connection to the...
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Limited potential

Melanie Evans | January 28, 2012
Nearly one year ago, the nation's largest Catholic health system said it would buy Catholic hospitals with private-equity backing.
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The money traps in U.S. healthcare

New York Times | January 22, 2012
Why does an appendectomy in Germany cost roughly a quarter what it costs in the U.S.? Or an M.R.I. scan cost less than a third as much, on average,...
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Brace for the post-election future

Richard Clarke | January 14, 2012
The new year has just started, but inside the Beltway, all eyes are on the presidential and congressional elections that will take place in...
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It costs more, but is it worth more?

New York Times | January 03, 2012
If you want to know what is wrong with American healthcare today, exhibit A might be the two new proton-beam treatment facilities the Mayo Clinic has...
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Automatic Data Processing buys PhyLogic

Joseph Conn | February 01, 2012
Automatic Data Processing, Roseland, N.J., a publicly traded provider of business process outsourcing services, announced the acquisition of PhyLogic...
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Efficiency a key factor in top practices: MGMA-ACMPE

Andis Robeznieks | January 25, 2012
Better-performing medical practices are distinguished by high physician productivity boosted by support staff, quicker collections and higher patient...
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Hospital district to award more big retirement packages

Los Angeles Times | February 01, 2012
A Monterey County, Calif., hospital district, which came under fire last year for giving its chief executive one of the largest public pensions in...
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AMN sells home healthcare operations

Paul Barr | January 30, 2012
AMN Healthcare Services, San Diego, exited the home healthcare business with the sale of its home health operations to Bayada Home Health Care, Mount...
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Limited potential

Melanie Evans | January 28, 2012
Nearly one year ago, the nation's largest Catholic health system said it would buy Catholic hospitals with private-equity backing.
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Gloomy prospects

Melanie Evans | January 28, 2012
The financial picture in 2012 is somewhat dreary for not-for-profit hospitals as the economy remains weak and lawmakers keep coming back to...
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