Jan 13 2010
The (Minneapolis-St. Paul) Star Tribune reports that hospitals in the Twin Cities appear to be back in the black after cutting jobs, freezing pay and delaying new construction on hospitals around the region. "Collectively, net income for hospitals swung to $327 million for the first three quarters of 2009, compared with a loss of $42 million during the same period in 2008, according to the Minnesota Hospital Association, which surveyed 22 metro hospitals." More people also visited the hospitals in the region in 2009, officials say (Yee, 1/11).
 This article was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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