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		<title><![CDATA[Healthcare Roundup: Wal-Mart Steps Forward, Ryan to Step Down, Novant Expands to Virginia, and More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Steps Forward â€" Wal-Mart Stores, the nationâ€™s largest retailer, has endorsed the idea of an employer mandate to cover workers, with three caveats: it must be part of larger health care reforms, it must exempt small firms, and it must allow employers to offer the kind of basic coverage...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:21:36 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fitch Places Novant Health  on Rating Watch Evolving]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2008_April_1/ai_n24965901]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[LONDON & CHICAGO -- Fitch Ratings has placed Novant Health's Novant long-term underlying 'AA-' rating on Rating Watch Evolving, affecting approximately $757 million of North Carolina Medical Care Commission health care revenue bonds issued on behalf of Novant. Fitch's action follows Novant's announcement today of its investment in seven hospitals...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[When profit is not the incentive: for many reasons, nonprofit companies have become major players and employers in the Tar Heel economy.(FEATURE)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6617/is_200802/ai_n26448327]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[It's not yet 3, but the late-December day is fading as men and  women climb out of cars onto the sloped concrete of a parking deck near  downtown Charlotte. The Presbyterian Hospital lot becomes a sea of  jewel-colored scrubs as nurses, doctors, technicians and assistants in ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Safest Hospital Initiative to Save Lives, Cut Costs]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5554/is_200705/ai_n21903375]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[To: HEALTH EDITORSContact: Amy Stevens of Wellmont Health System, +1-423-230-8235, or Jeff Hooper of Ackermann PR, +1-865-584-0550, both for Safest Hospital Alliance WASHINGTON, May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Three of the nation's leading hospital systems on Thursday announced a plan to combat the growing epidemic of medical errors in hospitals by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brunswick Community Hospital.(EASTERN)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6617/is_200612/ai_n26061523]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[SUPPLY -- Brunswick Community Hospital, operated by  Winston-Salem-based Novant Health, wants to build a $100 million  hospital to replace its 60-bed hospital about three miles away. Still  subject to state approval, it would have 92 private rooms, five  operating rooms and an emergency room and open...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fitch Rts Novant Health, Inc., North Carolina Ser 2006 & 2007A 'AA-'; Outlook Revised to Positive]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'AA-' rating to the North Carolina Medical Care Commission hospital revenue bonds Novant Health Obligated Group series 2006 and 2007A, listed below. In addition, Fitch has affirmed the ratings on the outstanding bonds for Novant Health Novant listed at the bottom of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Forsyth Medical Center.(TRIAD)(Brief Article)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6617/is_200411/ai_n26050275]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Forsyth Medical Center, part of Winston-Salem-based Novant Health,  won approval from the state Department of Health and Human Services for  a $67 million expansion. The project will add 114 acute-care beds,  giving it 751 and bringing the total to 961. The expansion should be  done by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AN ILL WIND]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5314/is_200006/ai_n21455889]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Two months. That's all it took to merge the parent companies of Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem and Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte. The auditors declared their books sterile as mules, papers were signed, and the billion-dollar deal closed July 1, 1997, three months ahead of schedule. "No skeletons fell out...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AN ILL WIND.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6617/is_200006/ai_n26453517]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Injecting itself with more hospitals and doctor practices  didn't immunize Novant to what's plaguing the health-care  industry.    Two months. That's all it took to merge the parent companies  of Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem and Presbyterian Hospital in  Charlotte. The auditors declared their...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AN ILL WIND.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6617/is_200006/ai_n31089362]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Injecting itself with more hospitals and doctor practices  didn't immunize Novant to what's plaguing the health-care  industry.     Two months. That's all it took to merge the parent companies  of Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem and Presbyterian Hospital in  Charlotte. The auditors declared...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CEO Leaving North Carolina's Presbyterian Healthcare System.(Originated from The Charlotte Observer, N.C.)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_199711/ai_n22344235]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Nov. 4--Presbyterian Healthcare System Chief Executive Paul  Betzold said Monday that he will resign to take a less stressful,  lower-profile job in the health-care industry.       NorthEast Medical Center Chief Executive Tom Revels will replace  Betzold, who is 54. The transition will...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 1997 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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