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Hospitals in Crisis: The Insolvency Crisis Plaguing Hospitals Across the U.S.

Strategies for Financially Troubled Healthcare Facilities

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Hospitals and other healthcare providers are facing an insolvency crisis of mounting proportions. No longer can you rely on government-funded subsidies or bailouts, even for non-profit institutions.

What options short of filing for Chapter 11 or closure are available to financially troubled healthcare facilities? What national and state reforms are on the horizon? And, if bankruptcy is indeed your best option, what pre-filing strategies should you adopt to ensure the most successful turnaround?

Order this Audio CD (recorded late April 2007) and learn from two experts in healthcare restructuring. They examine current trends in healthcare insolvencies and spotlight what other healthcare providers are doing to stem the crisis in their own facilities.

This 90-minute Audio CD which includes written materials - covers:

· Evolving factors triggering this crisis, including:
o Changing urban demographics
o Rising population of uninsured or indigent patients
o Declining reimbursement rates
o Increasingly burdensome regulations
o Surging medical malpractice claims
o Consistent decline in hospital occupancy rates
· How developments in New York State foreshadow changes for the rest of the country
· The Berger Commissions landmark recommendations for revamping healthcare systems
· Performance indicators for financial health
· Proven strategies to combat insolvency
· Privatization of public hospitals the political and financial realities
· Pros and cons of filing for Chapter 11
· Impact of Chapter 11s Automatic Stay provision on financial conditions
· And much more

Who Will Benefit:
This material is designed for senior executives, chief financial officers, board members, medical members, general counsel and all staff members involved in the administration of hospitals and healthcare providers.

Speaker(s):

	Afsheen Shah Garfunkel, Wild & Travis, P.C.
Afsheen Shah is an associate at Garfunkel, Wild & Travis, P.C., which she joined in 2003. She is a member of the firms Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy Practice Group, which advises clients on bankruptcy related issues. Ms. Shahs practice is focused in the areas of creditor rights, workouts, business acquisitions and restructurings. She has represented various businesses, hospitals, landlords and creditors committees. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Shah was an associate at Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP, where she participated in various bankruptcy and foreclosure related matters, including the representation of banks, landlords and Chapter 7 Trustees.
	Burton S. Weston Garfunkel, Wild & Travis
Burton S. Weston is a partner at Garfunkel, Wild & Travis, P.C., which he joined in 2002 after administering his own firm for 15 years. Mr. Weston is Chair of the firms Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy Practice Group, representing debtors, creditors and creditor constituencies in all aspects of the Chapter 11 process. He is also a member of the firms Business Practice Group, which advises clients on a broad array of corporate and transactional matters. Mr. Westons practice includes the preparation and prosecution of Chapter 11 cases for corporate debtors, the representation of creditors committees, creditor constituencies and individual creditors in reorganization cases, the acquisition and disposition of assets and business in the Chapter 11 context, the development of competing plans of reorganization for potential acquirors of distressed entities, the advise of parties in connection with the claims trading process, debtor-in-possession financing, the defense of preference and fraudulent conveyance actions, and the representation of landlords to Chapter 11 debtors. Mr. Weston has co-authored a bankruptcy text for inside counsel and other practitioners entitled Bankruptcy Strategies for Corporate Creditors," and lectures frequently on creditors rights and asset protection issues to professional groups and attorneys. Mr. Weston's past experience reflects a blend of public and private service. Mr. Weston served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York and he is a member of the Board of Directors of Transition Services of Long Island, a Suffolk County based not-for-profit agency.

Hospitals in Crisis: The Insolvency Crisis Plaguing Hospitals Across the U.S.


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