Navigating the niche. Three markets respond to the influx of specialty facilities--Indianapolis, Phoenix, Columbus.
Specialty centers that focus on lucrative services such as cardiology and orthopedics pose a challenge to full-service hospitals in already crowded health care markets. We examine how hospitals in three markets have responded, from aggressively working to keep niche facilities from gaining a foothold to partnering with physicians on their own centers.
Greene
Jan
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Scalise
Dagmara
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Thrall
Terese Hudson
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Haugh
Richard
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