SPCEIALTY HOSPITALS ~ Have A Stake In A Specialty Hospital? Ask These 3 Questions Right Away
Texas 911 call could spell an emergency for specialty hospitals.
The weather forecast for doctor-owned specialty hospitals just got a lot stormier, so now's the time to patch your roof.Physicians owning single-specialty hospitals have been a recent source of controversy, and Medicare had a moratorium on new facilities for a couple of years. Now the death of a patient at West Texas Hospital in Abilene is drawing fresh scrutiny. What happened: Truck driver Sam Spivey went into West Texas for spinal disc-fusion surgery, and went into respiratory arrest. The West Texas staff had to call 911, and an...
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