The ratings slide. Are we headed for a capital crisis?

On hospital credit ratings, the news is tough and tougher--what many industry watchers call a capital crisis in the making. Rating agencies contend the situation has been building for years, even while hospital margins reached historic highs as recently as 1997. "Then everything fell apart at the seams," says one bond rating pro.

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Risk-Taking, Investments, Financial Management, Hospital, Hospitals, Voluntary, United States, Capital Financing

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