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More Patients Key to University of Missouri Health Care System's Stability.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2003
By Nate Carlisle, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 26--Saying the problems facing University of Missouri Health Care are fixable, The Hunter Group recommended against selling any of the system's chief properties or laying off employees -- for now.
The key to financial stability is increasing patient volume at MU Health, Hunter representative David Coats said, and that will require more doctors and changes in the system's policies and procedures. Coats warned that action must be taken immediately if MU Health is to avoid losses projected at $6 million by fiscal 2005.
If the tide can't be turned, then laying off some of MU Health's 4,000 employees again will be considered, Coats said.
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