Hospitals ill from more bad debt, credit troubles
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081228/ap_on_bi_ge/meltdown_hospitals"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081227/capt.c1f84d2e8f504fee92359287a26a4978.hospital_meltdown_flps101.jpg?x=130y=90q=85sig=FP75sm1L0df7oZUiQiTnkQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="Dr. Steven Yucht, right, talks with emergency room patient Emogene Brown, left, in the Shands AGH Hospital in Gainesville, Fla., Friday, Dec., 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)" border="0" /></a>AP - Gainesville's first community hospital has been on life support since the Shands Healthcare system in northern Florida bought it a dozen years ago.</p><br clear="all"/>

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