SPOTLIGHT: What medical tourism means for your hospital

When Lowe's Home Improvement recently announced that all employees who needed cardiac surgery would go to Cleveland Clinic, it made Anthony Cirillo pause. Living just miles from Lowe's headquarters (near Charlotte, N.C.) and surrounded by very good major medical centers, he would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when local hospital officials heard the news. The announcement must have sent shock waves through them. Hospital Impact