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• Sacramento, Calif., hospital uses aggressive approach to collect unpaid bills.

  - 2004-09-26

  The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 26--Mercy Healthcare Sacramento is the most aggressive local hospital chain when it comes to collecting unpaid bills from the poor and uninsured, yet it enjoys the same tax breaks and financial perks all of...

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• San Francisco-Based Hospitals Group Cuts Operating Losses 64 Percent in 2002.

  - 2002-09-26

  By Lisa Rapaport, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 26--Catholic Healthcare West trimmed its operating losses 64 percent to $47.4 million in 2002, a sign of financial turnaround following combined losses of $933 million over the four previous fiscal...

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• Sacramento, Calif., Hospital to Close Doors Due to Financial Troubles.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2000-04-04

  Mar. 31--Mercy American River Hospital, emerging as the latest casualty of an ever-tightening health care marketplace, will close its doors on June 30, officials with the hospital's financially troubled parent company said Thursday. "Historically, American River has served an important role in its...

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• Doctors at Sacramento, Calif., Hospital See Dearth of `Specialty Patients'.

  - 1999-12-07

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 7 -- Six years after south Sacramento's Methodist Hospital merged with Mercy Healthcare Sacramento, doctors at the community hospital say Mercy hasn't lived up to its promises and are calling for Methodist to break free. At...

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• LOSSES MOUNTING AT CALIF. SYSTEM.

  - 1998-11-16

  Mercy Healthcare Sacramento, Catholic Healthcare West's seven-hospital system based in California's capital, has lost nearly $18 million on operations this year and has been losing money to the tune of $2.5 million a month since June, the system said. Mercy Healthcare controls about one-third...

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• IT for managed care at Mercy Healthcare - Mercy Healthcare Sacramento's IS management philosophy - an excerpt from the book "Change Drivers: Information Systems for Managed Care" - Company Operations

  - 1998-05-01

  A player in one of the most competitive markets in the United States manages multiple HMO relationships and balances information needs with integration while illustrating the adage "service first, and sales will follow." Editor's note: This article is excerpted from the book Change Drivers: Information Systems for Managed...

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• Clinicians, execs team up in system selection - Mercy Healthcare Sacramento employees participate in vendor-selection process

  - 1995-09-01

  A number of healthcare providers in California have been through earthquakes, fires and floods in the past couple of years. We at Mercy Healthcare Sacramento MHS have gone through a different kind of shaking, but one that will benefit our new information systems (I/S) strategy.The role of accurate, integrated medical...

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