My town, my hospital.
When our reporter read that his hometown hospital--Ottumwa Regional Health Center in Iowa--was on a list of the nation's hospitals most vulnerable to cuts in Medicare and Medicaid spending, he went to see why. What he found were executives coping with the future, not avoiding it. Here's what they did, how they did it--and why it might save them.
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