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Article: Association Publishes Standards
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- Quad - State Business Journal
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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With more hospitals going deeper into the wellness business with fitness facilities, controversy has erupted among competing private enterprise businesses, especially when the medical facilities are non-profit and don't pay income, property or sales taxes.
"We do not get involved in the debate over whether a medical fitness center should be for-profit or nonprofit," aid Gary Wing, executive director of the Medical Fitness Association in Richmond. She did not know how many of her members were for profit.
"It ' s up to each hospital to make that decision. It depends on the mission statement of the hospital. We feel that any commercially operated facility that is open and operating benefits ...