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Credit crunch forces Illinois hospital with 'A' bond rating to delay expansion
Just over a year ago, the two-hospital BroMenn Healthcare System in Normal, Ill., was moving along with plans to construct a new, 79,000-square-foot patient tower at its main BroMenn Regional Medical... Read more...
Standard & Poor's says non-profit systems' finances should keep eroding
The next few months shouldn't be much better for non-profit hospital systems than the first half of 2009 was, according to a new report from financial ratings firm Standard & Poor's. S&P says... Read more...
Emory puts $1.5B in new construction on hold
Struggling with the slow economy, Atlanta's Emory HealthCare has put several construction projects on hold, including a new hospital, deferring work valued at a total of about $1.5 billion. In doing... Read more...
Moody's pans profit outlook for for-profit hospitals
Yesterday, we told you about a study concluding that more than 50 percent of U.S. hospitals were in the red. Now, Moody's Investors Service has chimed in with its own gloom and doom, offering a... Read more...
House stimulus package includes help for bond market
Could relief be on the horizon for hospitals squeezed by a lack of access to the bond market? Some help could be if one provision in the huge economic stimulus package cleared by the House survives... Read more...
S&P downgrades for non-profit hospitals rise sharply
Standard & Poor's has taken a meat-axe to the credit ratings of not-for-profit hospitals of late. During the first six months of 2008, credit downgrades for non-profit hospitals and health... Read more...
