American Hospital Association
Full-Service Community Hospitals Blast Misleading Letter to Candidates From Limited-Service Hospitals
Published in Hospital Business Week, December 30th, 2007
A letter recently sent to presidential candidates about specialty hospitals is "all fiction, no facts," according to groups representing full-service community hospitals. Those groups, the Iowa Hospital Association (IHA) and the American Hospital Association (AHA), sent their own letter to the candidates to set the record straight about the real impact of limited-service facilities, which drive up the nation's health care costs and threaten to dismantle vital community resources for patients.
The joint IHA-AHA letter responds in detail to a misleading missive that a group of physicians backed by the trade association Physician Hospitals of America, recently sent to...
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