Article: Hospital operator Cape Cod Healthcare faces possible credit-rating downgrade.

Byline: Christie Smythe

Jul. 26--Cape Cod Healthcare's credit rating has been put on watch by debt rating agency Standard & Poor's.

Citing the organization's poor financial performance in 2005 and early 2006, the agency issued a change Monday in its "rating outlook" for Cape Cod Healthcare -- warning that it might downgrade Cape Cod Healthcare's rating for a second time in three years.

Cape Cod Healthcare operates Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Falmouth Hospital, the Visiting Nurse Association of Cape Cod and other health services in the region.

Ratings issued by New York-based Standard & Poor's -- which range from a high of "AAA" to a ...

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