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Article: Columbia hospitals begin name-dropping.(Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp.)
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- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- September 29, 1997
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Several Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. hospitals are dropping the tarnished Columbia name from their titles.
While the move would appear to distance the facilities from their troubled parent company, some of the hospitals said they had other reasons for shedding the Columbia moniker.
So far, five of the company's hospitals in South Carolina and three in Florida have either dropped Columbia from their name or have scuttled a decision to add it.
When Columbia's chairman and chief executive officer, Thomas Frist Jr., M.D., took over the troubled company July 25, he said the chain's facilities could drop the COlumbia name if they felt it was ...