{"id":12525,"date":"2019-01-29T09:50:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12525"},"modified":"2019-01-29T09:50:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:50:01","slug":"community-hospitals-link-arms-with-prestigious-facilities-to-raise-their-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12525","title":{"rendered":"Community Hospitals Link Arms With Prestigious Facilities To Raise Their Profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sandra G. Boodman for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>After seven years of a vigorous fight, Jim Hart worried he was running out of options.<\/p>\n<p>Diagnosed with prostate cancer at age 60, Hart had undergone virtually every treatment \u2014 surgery, radiation and hormones \u2014 to eradicate it. But a blood test showed that his level of prostate-specific antigen, which should have been undetectable, kept rising ominously. And doctors couldn\u2019t determine where the residual cancer was lurking. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/community-hospitals-link-arms-with-prestigious-facilities-to-raise-their-profiles\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=69387914&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--jfNJAYHW8tvgwkWSi_6_BscBUtz9_CX9BdIeGTOEmP4HdJhWtkK47Zcy-RQRQdM-uGcMVvj7ImeZpltSW7_WpmsshTg&amp;_hsmi=69387914\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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