Article: St. Luke's will idle quarter of its beds. (St. Lukes Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio)

St. Luke's Medical Center in Cleveland plans to idle about a quarter of its beds as its braces itself for life without most of its Kaiser Permanente patients.

After Dec. 31, northeastern Ohio's largest health maintenance organization no longer will refer patients to St. Luke's for general medical care. Instead, Kaiser patients will be referred to the Cleveland Clinic under an agreement reached in late 1991.

The loss of those Kaiser referrals, which represent 25% of St. Luke's in-patient admissions, is leading St. Luke's to close two of its medical surgical units in January. As a result, about 100 beds at the hospital no longer will be used and 183 of the 261 ...

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