A profit by any other name would still give hospitals the fits.
Surplus. Excess revenue. Money for reinvestment. Hospitals would have you call it anything but profit. However, they are generating more of it than ever before. Colorado hospitals, for example, including Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge, left, are posting their highest earnings in several years.
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