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Perhaps it''s a start.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 28-NOV-04
Format: Online - approximately 677 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Perhaps it''s a start.(Editorials)(Hospitals agree to settlement in antitrust case)(Editorial)

Article Excerpt
Byline: The Register-Guard

One way to characterize last Wednesday's settlement of an important part of McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center's federal antitrust suit against PeaceHealth is "a day late and a dollar short." Make that 908 days late and better than $20 million short, give or take a few million.

Roll the tape back to May 30, 2002. Two federal judges, one an expert in mediation, spent two full days trying to persuade executives from McKen- zie-Willamette and Sacred Heart Medical Center to settle their differences and avoid a costly, divisive trial. U.S. Magistrate Thomas Coffin ordered both sides to bring their...

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