Winning isn't everything...
In Owensboro, Ken., a state moratorium on new health facilities and a hospital's request for a hearing to determine if the proposed surgery center would be in competition with it have forced an otolaryngologist to defer his dreams of building an outpatient surgery center.
It's the only thing...
In Hilton Head, S.C., a physicians group and a hospital are playing a game of legal chicken: If the doctors agree to drop legal action delaying a large addition to a medical center, the hospital would agree not to oppose the physicians' state Certificate of Need (CON) application.