the LA Times on the impact of specialty hospitals (aka boutique hospitals)

And now, four-star hospitals
Resort amenities woo patients and doctors alike. But life-saving trauma centers could pay the price.
By Susan Brink, Times Staff Writer.
March 6, 2006

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For the LA Times articles, you usually have to register on their site, but you only have to do it once and it's free! Plus, I think it's a great newspaper (as a socal native, I might be just a little bit biased...)