Word: humanae
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...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...
...best plays at Louisville's Humana Festival radiate promise...
...weekend of March, some 400 professionals-actors and agents, playwrights and directors, critics from every major U.S. publication and from a dozen foreign countries-convene in Louisville in hopes of seeing early productions of significant American dramas. The optimism is often justified. Since its inception six years ago, the Humana Festival of New American Plays has introduced, among other works, The Gin Game, Getting Out, Crimes of the Heart, Agnes of God and Lone Star, all of which have gone on to win a place in the repertoire and two of which have won Pulitzer Prizes. For his efforts, Producing...