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Article: COMMUNITY HOSPITALS STRUGGLING, STUDY FINDS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 21, 2005
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Community hospitals in Massachusetts are struggling financially
and unable to modernize and build new facilities because the balance
of power in the healthcare market is shifting strongly to big
teaching hospitals, according to a new report.
The study, to be released today by the Massachusetts Council of
Community Hospitals, says teaching hospitals were eating up nearly 50
percent of all patient admissions in the state in 2003, up from 35
percent 12 years ago and more than double the national average market
share for teaching hospitals.
If the balance were closer to the national average, savings to the
state's healthcare system through treating patients in less expensive
community settings ...