A City's Only Hospital Cut Services. How Locals Fought Back.
A City's Only Hospital Cut Services. How Locals Fought Back. © Cayla Nimmo for the Wall Street Journal When the only hospital in a small central Wyoming city stopped delivering babies and cut back on surgeries, local residents sought to start their own. The fight that ensued now stretches to Washington, and is shining an uncomfortable light on one of the country’s biggest hospital chains and its private-equity owner. LifePoint Health Inc., backed by Apollo Global Management Inc., controls the only hospital in working-class Riverton, Wyo. After LifePoint merged Riverton’s hospital with a...
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