Looking for options; Erie, Pa., hospital in talks with for-profit chain.(Regional News Metro Health Center)

Modern Healthcare, January, 2003 by Becker, Cinda

Byline: Cinda Becker

Assessing limited options as it struggles to emerge from bankruptcy protection, a small osteopathic hospital apparently is cracking open the door to for-profit hospital care in Western Pennsylvania.

Officials at 68-bed Metro Health Center, Erie, Pa., said last week that three unnamed parties are interested at least preliminarily in doing business with it. One company in negotiations with the hospital is a for-profit hospital chain looking to open a surgical hospital in suburban Erie, said Debra Dragovan, Metro Health's chief executive officer. Discussions with the two other parties are too preliminary to discuss, but one of the parties is a for-profit and the other is a not-for-profit, she said.

On July 1, 2002, Metro...

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