Browsing the archives for the community benefit tag
Good news/bad news from the world of medicine last week. Both stories from the business section of the NY Times and “business of health care” reporter Reed Abelson. The bad news first: Huron Hospital, a community hospital in East Cleveland, will be closed down by its corporate overlord, the Cleveland Clinic. Like many community hospitals, [...]
The Illinois Supreme Court issued a fascinating ruling last week, upholding a decision to strip a downstate non-profit hospital chain of its tax-exempt status for failing to provide sufficient charity care to its patients. Provena Covenant Medical Center is a chain of six Catholic hospitals. Provena will now in effect owe millions of dollars in [...]