Intelligence Unit
Special Reports
Special Events
Subscribe/Buy
Sponsored
Departments
- Leadership
- Finance
- Technology
- Physicians
- Community Hospitals
- Health Plans
- Marketing
- Quality
- Nursing
- HR
Follow Us
Hospital bonds are latest credit casualty in Wisconsin
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, March 3, 2008
The spreading contagion in the nation's credit markets has infected healthcare finance in Wisconsin, sending interest rates on some hospital bonds as high as 18 percent. Milwaukee-based Ministry Health Care Inc., for example, will have to come up with an extra $700,000 a month to pay interest on bonds used, among other things, to build a new hospital in Weston.
Most Viewed
Most Emailed
- Urologists 'Outraged' Over PSA Test Challenge
- New Facebook Page Gathers Stories of Medical Harm
- Luxury Hospital Facilities Put Patient Experience First
- How Rivals Built an ACO
- Health Insurance Exchanges Put Defined Benefits to the Test
- Heartland Health Joins Mayo Clinic Network
- E-book Revolution Changes, Challenges Healthcare
- Five Hospitals Share Three Secrets to Improve Knee Surgery Outcomes
- Mapping Out Revenue-Cycle Solutions
- TN Health System Charts Its Own Course
