Community hospitals worry about expansion of urban medical centers
Credentialing Resource Center Connection, May 1, 2008
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Across the nation, large, urban, academic medical centers are expanding their facilities into the suburbs, and smaller, community hospitals worry about their own livelihood. In the Boston area such concerns led the state health authorities to intervene, issuing restrictions about opening free-standing surgical centers and regulating hospitals’ ability to move beds.
Community hospitals worry that the new hospitals will duplicate services and make it hard for them to compete financially. However, the urban hospitals claim that expansions into the suburbs will allow them to better respond to the needs of their patients who travel to the city for care and will ease the burden on the main urban hospitals.
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