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Archive Home > 2001 > January > 21 > Growth pushes area hospitals to capacity

Growth pushes area hospitals to capacity

By Rebecca Merritt / The Bulletin
January 21, 2001

St. Charles Medical Center in Bend is so busy that it ran out of hospital beds two or three times last year and had to transfer patients to Redmond.

The hospital's growth rate for 2000 was almost twice that of the city of Bend, said Rick Martin, senior vice president of operations. The number of....

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