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...town these days. Last Thursday, on the night of The Game, a smaller but no less demanding group of enthusiasts from all over the U.S. and a dozen foreign countries convened in Louisville to search for the future of the American theater. Now in its eighth year, the Humana Festival of New American Plays has helped nurture such authors as Beth Henley and Marsha Norman from early promise to mature achievement. The festival-nine full-length plays in three days, all produced by Jon Tory's Actors Theater of Louisville-continues to solidify its reputation as the theater...
...incarnated with creepy brilliance by John Spencer) will be followed by some wildly comic testimony that might have come from Carol Burnett's blooper barrel. Execution of Justice, directed by Oskar Eustis and Anthony Taccone, is a major work that seems to stand outside the perimeters of most Humana Festival plays. Yet its concerns are the same: to examine, with care and craft, the rending dynamics of American society. In life and art, these plays argue, get back to essentials...
...spirit of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em," hospitals are opening up their own outpatient surgical centers, some within their existing facilities and some outside. Humana Inc., a hospital chain based in Louisville, reports that 76 of its more than 90 hospitals have established "day surgery" centers. "It's one of the fastest growing services we have," says Chris Wurster, a spokesman for Denver's Lutheran Medical Center, which is building a $14.6 million outpatient surgical wing. The competition between conventional hospitals and surgical centers is fierce, but the winners, most observers agree...
...Camden, N.J., last January hired a plane to carry a streamer over Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia during a football game with the message: COOPER DOCTORS, YOUR OTHER WINNING TEAM. Some institutions give birthday parties for babies born in their hospitals in the hope of encouraging repeat visits. At Humana's Women's Hospital in San Antonio, which will open next summer, children visiting their newborn brothers and sisters will be entertained in a special "sibling room" equipped with games. Patients at Eastwood Hospital in Memphis, a Healthcare International facility, get a $10 refund if the floor nurse fails...
...investor-owned part of the hospital industry had 1982 revenues of $11.2 billion and profits of some $520 million. In the past five years, the earnings of the five largest hospital companies (Hospital Corporation of America, Humana, American Medical International, National Medical Enterprises and Lifemark) increased at an annual rate of 30% to 50%. Last year Standard & Poor's index of stock prices for hospital management companies zoomed 68%, making the otherwise healthy 14.8% rise in the S & P index of 500 industrials look anemic by comparison...