Black hospitals' fortunes, ranks still declining.
A 1990 story in Modern Healthcare identified only eight traditional black hospitals, a group that once numbered more than 200. Now, only a couple of those appear to be in reasonably good health. The facilities' heavy dependence on increasingly unreliable Medicaid as a payer is making it harder for them to survive, executives at those hospitals say.
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