Hospital Closings and Configuration

Urban Hospital Closings

• Paying New York State Hospitals More Fairly for Their Care of Uninsured Patients. [31 Aug 2011 – 168 pages]
• Why stabilizing St. Vincent’s Is Vital. The Villager. [10 Mar 2010 – 2 pages]
• The Survival of Lachine Hospital. Montreal. [15 January 2006 – 51 pages]
• Closing Hospitals in New York State Won’t Save Money but Will Harm Access to Health Care. [20 November 2006 – 53 pages]
• Survival of Hospitals Serving Vulnerable Populations. Session 4132 of the American Public Health Association. [12 November 2002 – 8 pages]
• Editorial: Reforming Health Care. Gloucester Daily Times. [5 October 1999 – 2 pages]
• Caregroup R.I. Chain Talk Merger Intensive Discussions Set with Care New England. Boston Globe. [12 April 1997]
• Paying All Needed Hospitals Fairly To Care for All of Us At a Cost We Can Afford. Testimony before Joint Committee. [27 March 1991 – 6 pages]
• Why Urban Voluntary Hospitals Close. Health Services Research. [Fall 1983 – 31 pages] posted by permission http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1068770&blobtype=pdf.  Also see HSR, Vol. 18, nos. 3-4, for two-part special issue on hospital closings.
• Urban Voluntary Hospitals: Predictable Closure/Relocation Pattern? Health Progress. [October 1981]
• Urban Hospital Closings in the Face of Racial Change. Health Law Project Library Bulletin. [June 1980 – 13 Pages]

Massachusetts Hospitals

• Hospital Deals Raise Questions. Boston Globe. [7 September 2010 – 1 page]
• All We Want is a Guarantee. Gloucester Daily Times. [16 August 1999]
• Prognosis Isn’t Good for Local Hospitals. Gloucester Daily Times. [16 August 1999]
• Hospitals Find Themselves Increasingly Short of Beds. Salem Evening News. [8 August 1999 – 1 page]
• Hospital Expert Predicts that Addison Gilbert Will Close. Salem Evening News. [31 August 1999 – 6 pages]
• 60 Mass. Hospitals Face $724m Cut in Medicare Funds. Boston Globe. [20 July 1999]
• Will There be a Nurse When You Need One? Declining Staff Ratios in Massachusetts Hospitals. [March 1998 – 15 pages]
• Second Opinions- Sale of 2 Hospitals Would be Bad for Health. Boston Globe. [13 August 1997 – Page]
• Going Head to Head. Comments on the UMass and Memorial Health Care Merger. Boston Business Journal. [4 August 1997]
• Hospital Closings, Mergers Don’t Save Money. Boston Globe. [8 June 1997]
• Before It’s Too Late: Why Hospital Closings Are a Problem, Not a Solution, 2nd Edition. [2 June 1997 – 97 pages]
• The Quest for Efficiency: How Mass. Hospitals Are Getting it Done. Hospital News. [May 1997]
• Drastic Cut in Hospitals Predicted. Berkshire Eagle. [19 April 1997]
• Experts Differ on Findings of Health Care Study. Boston Business Journal. [19 April 1997]
• Competitors Set Aside Egos for Hospital Deal. Boston Globe. [19 April 1997]
• Report Acute Care Hospitals May Dwindle. Boston Herald. [10 April 1997]
• Before It’s Too Late: Why Additional For-profit Hospitals and HMO’s Should be Outlawed in Massachusetts. [11 March 1997 – 12 pages]
• State Health Council Oks $215M Medical City in Worcester. Boston Herald. [29 January 1997]
• BU Study Contends New Worcester Hospital Unnecessary. Boston Globe. [28 January 1997]
• Debt Troubles Still Cloud NEMC’s Future. Boston Globe. [19 January 1997]
• Worcester Health Complex is Challenged. Boston Globe. [23 November 1996]
• The Other City Hospital. Boston Globe. [6 October 1996]
• Testimony Opposing the Relocation of St. Margaret’s Hospital from Dorchester to Brighton. [22 February 1990 – 4 pages]
• Understanding Massachusetts Hospital Costs. Legislative Briefing. [30 September 1991 – 2 pages]
  • Exhibits. [10 pages]
• Hospital Costs and Utilization Soar Under Chapter 23. Highlights and Recommendations from Forthcoming Report. [26 March 1991 – 6 Pages]
• Report Finds One-Fifth of Massachusetts Hospital Costs Unjustified. Press Release. [6 February 1991]
• Changes in Financing Uncompensated Hospital Care in Massachusetts 1982-1987. Report. [ 3 August 1987 – 49 Pages]

Washington, D.C. Hospitals

• Lessons from the Fight Over D.C. General Hospital. American Public Health Association. [23 October 2001 – 14 pages]
• Flaws in the 12 April 2001 Contract Transferring Care to Greater Southeast. [30 April 2001 – 8 pages]
• Threats to Urban Public Hospitals and How to Respond to Them. [30 March 2001 – 20 pages]
• D.C. General Must be Resuscitated. Op-Ed, Washington Post. [3 December 2000 – 1 page]
• Saving D.C. General Hospital: Why and How. [5 October 2000 – 49 pages]
• D.C. General Hospital Should be Renewed, Not Closed or Converted, D.C. City Council Testimony. [18 September 2000 – 23 pages]
  • Supporting Maps [4 pages]

New York Hospitals

• Paying New York State Hospitals More Fairly for Their Care of Uninsured Patients. [31 Aug 2011 – 168 pages]
• Why Stabilizing St. Vincent’s Is Vital. [10 Mar 2010 – 2 pages]
• Closing Hospitals in New York State Won’t Save Money but Will Harm Access to Health Care. [20 November 2006 – 53 pages]

New Hampshire Hospitals

• Report on Optima Health Care’s $35 Million CoN Application. [July 1996 – 46 pages]
• How Can Catholic Medical Center be Saved? [October 1995 – 22 pages]
• Report on Elliot Hospital’s Application for a CoN for a New Obstetrical Services. With Supplement on Free Care. [June 1989 – 41 pages]

California Hospitals

• Closing Rancho Los Amigos Endangers the Health of Disabled Medi-Cal Patients in Los Angeles. [3 April 2003 – 41 pages]
• California’s Catastrophic Competition. [28 October 1991 – 12 pages]

For-profit Hospitals

• Comments on Jack Needleman’s “Nonprofit to For-profit Conversion by Hospitals and Health Plans: A Review,”  Pioneer Institute Forum. [18 February 1999 – 7 pages]

Identifying and Protecting Needed Hospitals

• Graduate Medical Education Financing in the U.S.A.–and its importance to urban teaching hospitals, [7 December 2002 – 62 pages]
• Too Many Local Hospitals on Life Support. Boston Globe. [3 March 2002 – 2 pages]

Other Hospital

• Report on the Relocation and Expansion of Princeton, New Jersey’s Hospital. [1 February 2005 – 31 pages]
• Hospitals Explain Need for Millions In Bank. Union Leader. [6 April 1997]
• To Have or Have Not: Hospitals Battle Over Who Gets State Approval for New Programs. Charlotte Observer. [23 February 1997]
• Did the Upper Valley Really Need a New 218 Million? Medical Center Valley News. [13 September 1991]

Baseball Stadium Relocation

• Sager and Culbert, Why Baseball Teams Move: Racial, Financial and Other Predictors of Relocation. Cooperstown, New York. [7 June 1993 – 28 pages]
• Stix, Blackballing the Inner City. Scientific American. [September 1993 – 1 page]