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In part 1 I presented an updated data set for Pennsylvania hospital financial performance and compare it against my 2010 analysis.

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Is your hospital profitability suffering?  Is it being squeezed by a competitor? Or, is your hospital the one doing the squeezing?  Is it even making money?

As physicians we don’t often ask ourselves about the bigger organizational strategy.  However, it is hard to ignore the reality that hospital policies affecting us are often informed by numbers so hard to understand that sometimes we just pretend that logic doesn’t exist.

Maybe it’s time to do something about that.

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