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Before healthcare investor Joel Freedman shutters the money-losing hospital he controls in the heart of Philadelphia, he must craft a plan to remove all the street signs that direct people to its emergency room. Medical care, emergency or not, will no longer be available at Hahnemann University Hospital under a proposal being considered this month by the federal judge overseeing the bankruptcy of the 171-year-old institution and its parent company. (Church, 7/15)

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Monday attacked the pending closure of a Philadelphia hospital as an example of corporate greed taking priority over people’s health. During a rally to save the 171-year-old Hahnemann University Hospital from bankruptcy, Sanders said his “Medicare for All” plan would guarantee healthcare to every American and save them from corporations that are just seeking to make a profit. (Weixel, 7/15)

In December 2017, Sidney Canada felt dizzy and disoriented. The 52-year-old Georgia father often struggled to get a decent night’s rest, due to his sleep apnea. When he couldn’t talk clearly, his wife wondered if he had taken too many sleeping aids. He was sent to Evans Memorial Hospital, a 49-bed facility between Macon and Savannah, according to family members. After Canada was admitted, the staff attached tubes and a catheter, hoping to stabilize and monitor him. But he grew agitated. He ripped them off, splattering blood on the walls. (Blau, 7/15)

The Minnesota Hospital Association said the state's largest not-for-profit health insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, is probably breaking the law by imposing a slate of new policies designed to deny or delay access to routine colonoscopies and hundreds of other services in hospitals. The hospital trade group is asking state officials to investigate the practices of the state Blue Cross plan and stop the insurer from imposing new policies that the hospitals said make it more difficult and expensive for Minnesotans to access routine and lifesaving health care services. (Carlson, 7/15)

By year's end, Akron's two major health systems will be owned by outside entities, a reality that just a few years ago some leaders were reluctant to embrace. But now, with Akron General years into a successful integration with Cleveland Clinic, and Summa Health announcing it will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Michigan-based Beaumont Health, city and hospital leaders are ready to seize what comes alongside a loss of local ownership: stability and an infusion of outside resources. (Coutre, 7/15)