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NL888 Posted 18 years ago
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hospitals = facilities?
0 Context: 01 font 00 April 30, 2008, 8:38 am 02 br
00 Rich Hospital, Poor Hospital 02 br
00 Posted by Joe Mantone 02 font 02 br
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01 font 00 The Wall Street Journal recently reported on the yin of hospitals — nonprofits reaping big profits. Now we have the hospital yang — those facilities struggling to break even on patient care. 02 font 02 br
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01 font 00 The latter story refers to a report from restructuring firm Alvarez & Marsal that says 2,000 of the nearly 3,900 acute-care hospitals are “technically insolvent or at risk of insolvency.” 02 font 01 h2
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00 1) "Those facilities" = the 01 b 00 hospitals 02 b 00 in "the yin of 01 b 00 hospitals 02 b 00 "? 02 br
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00 2) struggling to break on patient care = being so mad that the hospitals don't want to work for the health care for patients? 0-
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00 1) "Those facilities" = the 01 b 00 hospitals 02 b 00 in "the yin of 01 b 00 hospitals 02 b 00 "? 02 br
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00 2) struggling to break on patient care = being so mad that the hospitals don't want to work for the health care for patients? 0-
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0 Hi, 02 br 02 br 00 Context: 01 font 00 April 30, 2008, 8:38 am 02 br 00 Rich Hospital, Poor Hospital 02 br 00 Posted by Joe Mantone 02 font 02 br 02 br 01 font 00 The Wall Street Journal recently reported on the yin of hospitals — nonprofits reaping big profits. Now we have the hospital yang — those facilities struggling to break even on patient care. 02 u 02 b 00 00 No.
- 0 Hi, 02 br 02 br 00 Context: 01 font 00 April 30, 2008, 8:38 am 02 br 00 Rich Hospital, Poor Hospital 02 br 00 Posted by Joe Mantone 02 font 02 br 02 br 01 font 00 The Wall Street Journal recently reported on the yin of hospitals — nonprofits reaping big profits.
- Now we have the hospital yang — those facilities struggling to break even on patient care.
- 02 u 02 b 00 00 No.
- If you 'break even', it means that you don't lose money and you don't make a profit.
- Usually, the focus is that you didn't lose money.
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0 Hi, 02 br
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00 Context: 01 font 00 April 30, 2008, 8:38 am 02 br
00 Rich Hospital, Poor Hospital 02 br
00 Posted by Joe Mantone 02 font 02 br
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01 font 00 The Wall Street Journal recently reported on the yin of hospitals — nonprofits reaping big profits. Now we have the hosp
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00 Context: 01 font 00 April 30, 2008, 8:38 am 02 br
00 Rich Hospital, Poor Hospital 02 br
00 Posted by Joe Mantone 02 font 02 br
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01 font 00 The Wall Street Journal recently reported on the yin of hospitals — nonprofits reaping big profits. Now we have the hosp
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00 M-dashes are becoming more and more acceptable in written English. I don't see how sentence structure is affected; the m-dashes merely replace colons in a less formal style: 02 br
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01 font 00 The Wall Street Journal recently reported on the yin of hospitals 01 b 00 : 02 b 00 nonprofits reaping big profits. Now we
00 M-dashes are becoming more and more acceptable in written English. I don't see how sentence structure is affected; the m-dashes merely replace colons in a less formal style: 02 br
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01 font 00 The Wall Street Journal recently reported on the yin of hospitals 01 b 00 : 02 b 00 nonprofits reaping big profits. Now we
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0 Thank you Clive and MM. 02 br
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00 Does the fact that nonprofit hospitals make big money (reap profits) means the hospitals are violating rules or breaching regulations or laws set by lawmakers/constitution? 0-
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00 Does the fact that nonprofit hospitals make big money (reap profits) means the hospitals are violating rules or breaching regulations or laws set by lawmakers/constitution? 0-
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0 Not necessarily ( and certainly not in violation of the constitution - that would never get down to that level of detail). 02 br
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00 I worked for a business-like non-profit. We made money, but it was reinvested back into the services we offered. It depends on the rules of the hospitals incorporation, their charter, etc. A hospital that makes money is able to offer more to t
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00 I worked for a business-like non-profit. We made money, but it was reinvested back into the services we offered. It depends on the rules of the hospitals incorporation, their charter, etc. A hospital that makes money is able to offer more to t
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0 Just one comment on “facility”. This word’s meaning can be very broad. 02 br
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00 Health care facility is another word for clinics or hospital. 02 br
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00 Sanitary facility is another word for toilet or places of that nature 02 br
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00 Waste treatment facility is where they process the sewer. 02 br
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00 Recreation
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00 Health care facility is another word for clinics or hospital. 02 br
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00 Sanitary facility is another word for toilet or places of that nature 02 br
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00 Waste treatment facility is where they process the sewer. 02 br
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00 Recreation
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