Summaries for: Health Care

Real Citizens Are Not ‘Astroturf’
By Ben Kelahan, Senior Vice President for Energy, The Saint Consulting Group After reading my daily dose of coverage this morning about various special interests "astroturfing" the climate change legislation, I figured why not add from the ink well a bit myself. The astroturf histrionics via press, blogs and tweets around the for and against advocacy ...
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Has wind hit it big? Opponents take up anti- big business stance
By Ben Kelahan,Senior Vice President for Energy, The Saint Consulting Group LOL.  Sorry.  I'm laughing because the inevitable has occurred.  Opponents of the wind energy industry are now comparing them to the tobacco industry. Cathy Taibbi writes in Wildlife Conservation Examiner.com an account of birds, bats and animals "massacred" by wind farm turbines.  If only all who ...
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Health care, development’s bright light, still shines despite credit woes
By Tom Ahern, Senior Vice President, The Saint Consulting Group Much has been written, spoken and ruminated lately on the implosion of the US commercial property market. More specifically, many retail and commercial developers are just hoping to keep their heads above water until 2010 when, they hope, the US has pulled out of recession, and ...
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Economic slowdown pushes medical facilities development onto life support
By Tom Ahern Senior Vice President, The Saint Consulting Group The global economic slowdown, exacerbated by tight credit markets, flat retail sales and rising unemployment in the United States, has moved beyond commercial real estate to claim its first victims in the healthcare sector. New hospitals, medical office buildings and outpatient surgery centers, which only months ago were ...
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South Dakota hospital fight revives debate over health care competition
Hospitals can fight against potential competitors with as much vigor as "big box" retailers. One such battle is being waged in South Dakota, one of 14 states without a system of hospital review, or certificate of need (CON), to determine if its communities need more health care facilities. Megan Myers reports in the Argus Leader that ...
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