In the latest episode of our drama, Hospital Wars . . .
Mission Hospitals has indicated it wants to terminate the Certificate of Public Advantage entered into for fear it would eat New York when it merged with St. Joseph’s Hospital long ago. As was likely anticipated, MedWest and Pardee are ganging up on Mission, which is smaller than they, asking the legislature to not only keep the cuffs on Mission, but to write more laws to elevate the little guy’s goal post. Yes, I am playing favorites with Mission, only because laws have been written, and are being written, explicitly to impede the organization’s ability to grow. If Mission is so nasty it must be stopped in its tracks, the state has means of shutting it down.
