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Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, a public hospital system, may shut down under budget pressure unless the county can find $200 million to match federal funds for a Medicaid demonstration project. Even if the matching funds are found, county health services will be reduced significantly. The county has 2.6 million legal, uninsured residents, of whom 2.1 million are employed. Public hospitals around the US face similar predicaments in providing health care to the uninsured. Some public hospitals are forming public-private partnerships to relieve funding difficulties.
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Health care consultant Diane Peterson takes on the role of an undercover agent to evaluate hospital quality. As mystery shoppers are to the retail industry, Petersen is to the healthcare industry. She has visited 30 hospitals in the Houston, TX, area to see how she is treated as a patient in the admissions, security, nursing, maintenance, human resources departments, as well as in the parking lot and cafeteria.
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Hospitals and other health care institutions in the south Florida region of Palm Beach, Dade and Broward counties are undergoing rapid change and competition. The south Florida region has one of the highest penetrations of managed care, yet the area has an oversupply of hospital beds. Several hospitals including Columbia/HCA are busy affiliating with other health care providers.
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