The Financial Crisis Takes a Toll on Hospitals

From the Wall Street Journal Health Blog:

Hospitals traffic in debt. They borrow money for big construction projects, and they effectively lend money to patients when they treat people without requiring payment upfront. So we checked in with a couple of hospital industry experts to see what the financial crisis means for the sector.

Board: Lives lost ‘needlessly’ in medical helicopter crashes

From CNN. com

“The Safety Board is very concerned with the increasing number of these EMS helicopter accidents,” said Robert Sumwalt, the NTSB’s vice chairman. “We have had too many of them. The number is increasing. We need to do something about it. We need to do something about it right now.”