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Rural areas cool to HCA; Town opposes ending inpatient services at hospital.

Publication: Modern Healthcare
Publication Date: 07-AUG-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Rural areas cool to HCA; Town opposes ending inpatient services at hospital.(The Week In Healthcare)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Vince Galloro

It's no wonder HCA announced more than a year ago that it was shedding 10 small hospitals in rural markets. The company hasn't been getting a neighborly greeting in Mayberry, R.F.D., lately.

The Nashville-based company was pushed out of 60-bed Brunswick Community Hospital, Supply, N.C., earlier this year because the company didn't see eye-to-eye with physicians and community leaders about whether population growth justified an expansion of the hospital (March 6, p. 24). HCA doesn't have to be pushed out of...

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