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Challenge in Carolina
Safety-net provider. Teaching institution. Testing ground for new technology. UNC Health Care is all of these things-welcome to life as an academic medical center.

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The Private Life of HCA
The hospital giant is attempting to remake itself away from the prying eyes of the public markets. But how is its strategy likely to change?
Records in Cyberspace
Infection Control Sounding Board
Insiders' Insights
Personalities: Decaffeinating Healthcare Costs
Worth a Look: Communication Collaboration

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Dirty Delays, Oppressive Overruns
Hospitals struggle to execute budget-conscious construction projects amid rampaging material and labor costs.
Providers Need Coverage, Too
Going Paperless for Free-More or Less
Armchair Finance
Money Talk

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Built for the Long Haul?
Information exchanges promise lower costs and better outcomes. But how many will survive?
Ideas from All
A Better Way to Test
Reporter's Desktop
DEAL!

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Patient Satisfaction
Patient Satisfaction: With healthcare providers constantly facing new forms of competition, patient satisfaction is crucial to gaining and maintaining market share.
Loose Lips
"It's a Cadillac policy, and we ought to be trying to fund a Ford Escort policy."
-Jim McGregor
Letters to the Editor

Good Riddance on Highway 280
At least four times a year, I drive down Highway 280 in Birmingham, AL, to see my Auburn Tigers play football, and I pass the shell of what was supposed to be HealthSouth's 13-story digital hospital and 200,000-square-foot headquarters palace. There are even a couple of chain restaurants next to it that are shuttered, like plants hit with an overspray of weed killer.
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