MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio

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MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, is the area's only public hospital. Since winning the Foster G. McGaw Prize in 1988, the hospital has lost much of its funding, but it continues to provide more charity services than any other Ohio hospital. The institution also runs Miracle Village, a treatment center for alcohol and substance abusers. MetroHealth CEO Terry White plans to increase efficiency, including reducing the ratio of specialists to primary care physicians.

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The fear factor

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Community leaders are expressing a growing concern that as not-for-profit health care providers seek for-profit status, usually through acquisitions, the community which subsidized them for many years is failing to receive compensation. Most not-for-profit organizations like Blue Cross/Blue Shield were granted relaxed income tax allowances, and communities feel that a payback is in order should the hospitals seek corporate benefits.

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Parkland Memorial Hospital

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The lobby of Dallas, TX's Parkland Memorial Hospital features a 'Freedom Wall,' that symbolizes the public institution's commitment to both civil rights and 'need fulfillment rights,' the rights to food, shelter, literacy, and medical care. CEO Ron Anderson insists that the hospital achieve excellence in the care it provides and in its physical plant. Parkland also maintains a strong balance sheet.

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