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...shift of patients can be devastating. Regionally owned Lincoln General Hospital in Ruston, La., lost about $2.5 million in business a year to imaging centers and an ASC, but was managing to stay afloat, according to CEO Tom Stone. Then, in 2003, the 40 physicians who ran the ASC opened the Green Clinic Surgical Hospital. Lincoln's inpatient and ambulatory surgeries halved, and by 2005 the hospital was $8 million in the red. "They've gone beyond cherry-picking," says Stone. "They've removed virtually everything they could take out of this facility." He is selling the hospital...
Green Clinic's CEO, Robert Goodwill, says Lincoln just screwed up. Its board declined an offer to invest in the specialty hospital, he says, and the hospital's losses stem from a "spending binge" Stone began in his attempt to compete. "Patients are choosing us because we're vastly superior," Goodwill says. But hospital bosses say this choice isn't a real one. "You're not going to disagree with the guy who's going to be cuttin' on you," says John Goodnow, CEO of Benefis Healthcare, a hospital system in Great Falls, Mont., that tried unsuccessfully to shut down...
...exclusive 267-hectare club overlooking the country's largest loch has introduced a winter membership, at a fraction of[an error occurred while processing this directive] the normal cost, coinciding with the recent launch of its Spa in the Walled Garden. The clean, modern lines of the glass, stone and wood sanctuary - boasting such sensory treats as a vitality plunge pool, a crystal steam room and massage therapists with seemingly magic hands - are bisected by an 18th century garden wall that belongs to Rossdhu House. Built by the Colquhoun clan in 1773, it was the family seat until...
...streak with its second loss of the season, the No. 4 Harvard women’s hockey team fell short, 3-2, against the Huskies last night at the Freitas Ice Forum.“UConn came out flying and played a tremendous game,” coach Katey Stone said. “We came out of the gates slowly and had to play catch-up the majority of the game. We just didn’t have an inspired effort [last night].”Although both the Crimson (11-2-0, 9-1-0 ECAC...
...closed by saying that Johnny would live on through the stories told about him by other journalists. I have two. One is more an image than a story. I met Johnny on my first trip to Iowa of my first Presidential campaign in 1975. I was working for Rolling Stone and trailing an entertaining if futile Oklahoma populist named Fred Harris; Johnny and I were the entire press corps. We traveled in a camper. Fred often went barefoot, sang country music songs and, in the evenings, dispensed Jack Daniel's in a manner that can only be called liberal...