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Local News - Local - December 05, 2008
CHS begins capital spending push
New owner of Empire hospitals spends $11.5 million

By Mike McLean
Of the Journal of Business


Ann Seaburg, of Deaconess' neonatal intensive care unit, displays one of 10 new "giraffe bed" isolettes being used there
Christmas has come early at Deaconess Medical Center and Valley Hospital & Medical Center.

The two Spokane hospitals have been unwrapping some of the $11.5 million in new equipment that's being bought this quarter by their new owner, Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems Inc.

CHS acquired most of the assets of Spokane nonprofit Empire Health Services in October for $156 million and has said it will make $100 million in capital improvements at Deaconess and Va...


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