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Local News - Local - July 17, 2009
Sacred Heart ponders next move
Expansion plans in flux after state's denial; rivals opposed additional beds

By Kim Crompton
Of the Journal of Business

Providence Sacred Heart Med-ical Center & Children's Hospital was expected to decide by a deadline late this week whether to appeal the Washington state Depart-ment of Health's recent denial of its certificate of need application for 152 more acute-care beds.

Also, a review of the state's decision shows that Sacred Heart's comp-etitor, Community Health Sys-tems Inc., which operates Deac-on-ess and Valley hospitals, opposed the expansion, as did Pre-mera Blue Cross and a doctor's gr...


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