No prisoners. For-profit vs. not-for-profit hospital skirmishes intensify.
Intense competition has manifested itself in a number of Southern markets where historic Civil War battles took place. Like Union and Confederate regiments lining up against each other, once-competing hospitals have fallen in along ownership lines to form two competing systems: one for-profit, the other not-for-profit.
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