title: Cardiac services find a new home in community hospitals.
abstract: Community hospitals increasingly are entering the cardiac-care business, with hopes of enhancing their public image, increasing revenues and winning managed-care contracts. But some question whether advanced services such as cardiac catheterization and open-heart surgery are profitable for smaller hospitals, or even medically appropriate.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wagner
mesh_terms: D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000191:economics*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000191:economics*; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000639:trends*; D007449:Investments; D011357:Product Line Management / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States