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Strom Thurmond: R, South Carolina (1) 79 Ernest Hollings: D, South Carolina (5) 33 Dianne Feinstein: D, California (30) 29 Dan Coats: R, Indiana (26) 28 Chuck Hagel: R, Nebraska (39) 28 Byron Dorgan: D, North Dakota (31) 25 William Frist: R, Tennessee (36) 25 Orrin Hatch: R, Utah...
...bill, Senate 1601, was sponsored by Sens. Kit Bond (R-Mont.), Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Judd Gregg...
...change in culture" that would include selling its home health care business, eliminating all employee cash-bonus programs, beefing up regulation enforcement and compliance among employees, and abandoning the profitable practice of selling interests in hospitals to its doctors. It sounds like the prescription of new CEO Dr. Thomas Frist ? on the job for just 12 days ? who's been trying to convince the feds that improprieties are exceptions at Columbia...
...Frist, who had been serving as Columbia's vice chairman and was growing increasingly disenchanted with Scott's leadership, wasted no time in signaling his willingness to cooperate with federal investigators. Frist said he was "dead serious" about addressing Washington's concerns and would launch at least three internal probes this week to ascertain whether company managers had broken any laws...
...federal probes intensified last week, Scott huddled with a handful of close friends, including Columbia director Michael Long, and concluded that his defiance of Washington was no longer tenable. That must have come as a considerable relief to Frist, who with his father had founded HCA in 1968. "Frist saw the family's name being tainted, and he couldn't take it anymore," says Kenneth Abramowitz, who follows the health-care industry for the Sanford C. Bernstein investment firm. But a high-ranking FBI official derided as "ludicrous" any notion that Scott's departure will end the government's probe...