Feature Story: Focus on healthcare, not reform

Executives of Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services say they’d be changing their business and real estate strategy even without healthcare reform. Above is the system’s 133,000 square foot Fairview Ridges Specialty Center in Burnsville, Minn., being developed by Frauenshuh. Rendering courtesy of Fairview Health Services

Executives of Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services say they’d be changing their business and real estate strategy even without healthcare reform. Above is the system’s 133,000 square foot Fairview Ridges Specialty Center in Burnsville, Minn., being developed by Frauenshuh. Rendering courtesy of Fairview Health Services

Some providers say they’d be changing their real estate strategies anyway

By Murray W. Wolf

Most articles about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), aka healthcare reform, focus on how the four-year-old law is “forcing” hospitals and health systems to change their ways – with a stated goal of delivering higher-quality, more collaborative care in efficient and less costly ways.

But some healthcare executives reject the notion that the PPACA is driving all of the changes.

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