St. Luke's will idle quarter of its beds. (St. Lukes Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio)

From: Crain's Cleveland Business | Date: November 22, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

St. Luke's Medical Center in Cleveland plans to idle about a quarter of its beds as its braces itself for life without most of its Kaiser Permanente patients.

After Dec. 31, northeastern Ohio's largest health maintenance organization no longer will refer patients to St. Luke's for general medical care. Instead, Kaiser patients will be referred to the Cleveland Clinic under an agreement reached in late 1991.

The loss of those Kaiser referrals, which represent 25% of St. Luke's in-patient admissions, is leading St. Luke's to close two of its medical surgical units in January. As ...

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