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...shift of patients can be devastating. Regionally owned Lincoln General Hospital in Ruston, La., lost about $2.5 million in business a year to imaging centers and an ASC, but was managing to stay afloat, according to CEO Tom Stone. Then, in 2003, the 40 physicians who ran the ASC opened the Green Clinic Surgical Hospital. Lincoln's inpatient and ambulatory surgeries halved, and by 2005 the hospital was $8 million in the red. "They've gone beyond cherry-picking," says Stone. "They've removed virtually everything they could take out of this facility." He is selling the hospital...
Kids in the town of Panguitch, Utah (pop. 1,600), have a name for Tom Hartsfield: Santa. Hartsfield encourages it, telling them he lives in Utah because it's too cold to stay at the North Pole year round. He'll even invite them to tug his beard if they seem doubtful. When they discover that the white whiskers are real, they tend to give him "sort of a shocked look," he says. "The real beard makes them believe more...
...Knowles wrote in an e-mail. The decision comes as a political victory for Petersen on the eve of voting for the UC presidential election. Petersen, who led the council’s tax-relief advocacy, is running for president against five competitors, including Tom D. Hadfield ’08. Hadfield has previously lambasted the UC’s lobbying effort: “The current approach of asking administrators nicely is not working,” Hadfield said Wednesday. —Alexander D. Blankfein contributed to the reporting for this story. —Rachel Nolan contributed...
...voting for the Undergraduate Council president begins today, candidates Tom D. Hadfield ’08 and Ryan A. Petersen ’08 are emerging as the frontrunners of this year’s six-way race, the largest in recent memory. The two tickets have differentiated themselves most on defining the UC’s relationship to University Hall and how best to advocate for students.Throughout the campaign, Petersen has stressed direct advocacy to the administration on behalf of students—highlighting his close relationships with administrators and faculty. In contrast, Hadfield has touted a less bureaucratic...
Understanding how UC advocacy works is an advantage Petersen says he has over fellow presidential hopeful Tom D. Hadfield...