Healthcare Companies
Prefab hospital invades Bucks County, Pa.
Philadelphia-area hospitals are watching with anxiety as a new facility, built with prefab techniques, rises in Bucks County. The Philadelphia Inquirer compares it to building with Lego blocks. Built by Diversified Specialty Institutes of Nashville, TN, DSI Bucks County is the first new hospital in the area in more than a decade which is overbedded already, the Inquirer says. The new hospital will focus on breast care and will have 24 beds, six operating rooms, a cancer …
... Read more...Shareholder lawsuits seek to block HCA buyout
The HCA buyout plan attracted four shareholder lawsuits before the ink was dry, including one from the top securities class-action law firm in the country. This account in The Tennesseean says such suits are par for the course in a big buyout, but quotes a legal expert saying they may have jumped the gun by filing before the 50-day deadline for HCA to solicit other offers. HCA President Richard Bracken talked about the suits in a conference call yesterday with the company's …
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