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...problem. Physicians in Wichita have been catching a bug. An entrepreneurial bug. One that compels them to build highly specialized hospitals, diagnostic imaging facilities stocked with next-generation scanners, and same-day surgery centers that have hotel-like touches. Conlin, CEO of the $1.2 billion nonprofit Via Christi Health System in Kansas, complains that these outfits are competing unfairly against St. Francis and St. Joseph, his two general hospitals in Wichita. And he intends to do something about it. Via Christi provided Kansans with some $30 million in charity care and $33 million in unpaid Medicaid services this year...
Wichitans have had front- row seats to the war. In 1997, disgruntled cardiologists led by Dr. Gregory Duick approached Via Christi about establishing a heart hospital. "There was no grand conspiracy to make more dollars for doctors," says Duick. "It was fanned by frustration with the hospitals' inability to get things done and a lack of input from physicians on administration." When Via Christi declined, the doctors tapped local investors, and in 1999 opened the smartly designed, one-story Kansas Heart Hospital in a tony northeastern quadrant of town...
Kansas Heart triggered a cascade. This quiet, airy city of 540,000 already had--besides Via Christi's hospitals--the Wesley Medical Center, part of the for-profit HCA chain. Wichita now has five doctor-owned hospitals as well, along with a dozen ASCs and at least 10 free-standing diagnostic imaging centers, eight of which have physician investors. (Via Christi has a share in four of them, as it does in one ASC and a specialty hospital.) "The fear that emergency rooms and cardiovascular programs would close at community hospitals," says Duick, "has not been borne out over seven...
...supposed to deliver. While laughing, he repeatedly asked a crew-member to remind him what his lines were. COMEDIC TO THE CORE? Student reception of the event was overwhelmingly positive, even before it began. According to Corcoran, tickets for the event, which were free and had been distributed via an online lottery, had been going for as much as $100 on the “black market†of student e-mail lists. Colbert received standing ovations both upon entering and leaving the Forum, and individual attendees expressed their excitement about the interview afterwards. Shouvik Banerjee, a student...
...have won the endorsement of the Asian American Association, the Chinese Students Association, Native Americans at Harvard College, and the Society of Arab Students. Zaidi has sustained the greatest number of campaign violations thus far—185 points—for infractions including illegal postering and early campaigning via e-mail and the Facebook. Four hundred points result in disqualification from the race. At Thursday’s debate, Petersen, Hadfield, and Anene all listed Zaidi as their second choice when asked which ticket they would endorse after their own.Hadfield expressed support for both the Anene and Zaidi platforms...