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Article: Beth Israel campus to lose bulk of beds
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 3, 1999
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The merged Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center yesterday said it
is moving its emergency room and a "significant majority" of its
inpatient beds to the former Deaconess facility as a first step
toward possibly consolidating its operations into a single campus.
The move could mean that for the first time in the 83-year history
of Beth Israel, the signature Boston hospital will be empty of
acute-care beds. To some, it represents how radically the health
care landscape has been transformed in just a few years as hospitals
cope with the wrenching financial problems caused by cuts in payments
from health insurers and the federal government.
In 1996, Beth Israel Hospital merged with Deaconess ...