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Preferred Health Network is a non-profit network of hospitals that was formed in 1989. That same year, they took over the managing of Brooklyn's
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and Jackson Heights' ''Physicians Hospital''. When several other hospitals were facing a choice between "closing down or seeking protection in a merger" the result was that "Ten hospitals in Nassau and Queens have become Preferred Health Network."


History

Having started in 1989 with one hospital, and shortly thereafter another, they grew to ten. However, by 1996 they were down to four hospitals, and ready for being taken over by
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; they had also added "more than 20
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facilities in Brooklyn and Queens." In 1996 ''
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'' wrote that "the real jewels of PHN are the primary care centers that dot Brooklyn and Queens" and explained that these ''primary care'' centers provide "low-cost delivery of health care" and also enable hospitals to "capture more seriously ill patients to fill their beds."


See also

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