Spike in health care construction brings higher interest costs

Hospitals in Chicago and elsewhere more than double debt service payments

By Healthcare Facilities Today


Hospitals in some regions of the country have undergone a recent building boom, renovating, expanding or building new facilities, but it's come with a price--higher interest payments, according to an article posted on the FierceHealthFinance web site.

Three hospitals in the Chicago area who have undertaken recent building projects says the cost of servicing their debt has gone up, Crain's Chicago Business reports.

For Ann & Robert Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago (formerly Children's Memorial Hospital)  located in the downtown Streeterville neighborhood, interest payments have increased more than five-fold. Similar situations are being reported in in other parts of the country.

Read the article.

 

 



August 30, 2013


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