Modern healthcare
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A flurry of new CMS quality reporting measures has hospitals wondering how much strain the new requirements will mean for their institutions. "We embrace reporting and being measured for the care we provide to our patients, but a lot of these measures are weakly linked to science and are subject to a lot of variation," says Alex Hover, of St. John's Health System. "We're going to need a lot of clarification."
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Two not-for-profit systems that badly needed access to capital found saviors in for-profit investors. Detroit Medical Center and Caritas Christi Health Care see the moves as the best way for them to survive in an increasingly competitive environment. "Having scale and capital access help with changes in payment and delivery reform, which we think will be addressed over the next several years," says Keith Pitts, left, of Vanguard, which is making the offer for DMC.