Recession blues. Coping with economic uncertainty.
Health care is faring better than most professions hard-hit by the recession, but the impacts are starting to filter into hospitals. New legislation aimed at reducing the cost of ancillary services threatens to hinder respiratory therapy expansion efforts and may force directors to cut personnel.
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