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Amsterdam, N.Y., Hospital Votes Out Management Firm.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2001

By Danielle T. Furfaro, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 6--Amsterdam Memorial Hospital has decided to end its four-year relationship with an outside management company.

The hospital's board of directors voted Tuesday not to renew a contract with Brentwood, Tenn.-based Quorum Health Resources LLC. The board also fired President and Chief Executive Officer Cornelia R. Catena, who joined Amsterdam Memorial in 1996 and became a Quorum employee when the hospital signed the management contract in 1997.

"Primarily, we decided we wanted to go in another direction and have a home-based operation and save a little money," Zygmond Slezak, chairman of the board, said Wednesday as the action was announced. "We've had a...

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