He said some hospitals were operating at 90% bed occupancy levels.

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The median operating margin for 200-bed hospitals and above was slightly negative (-0.7%) last year.

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Wesley Malin, chief operating officer of Hillhaven, a 100-bed facility in Adelphi, Md.

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Last year Nokia's Stephen Elop flung his company off what he described as a burning platform, putting the Finnish giant's Symbian operating system out to grass to get into bed with Microsoft's Windows Phone.

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There are the surgeon's fee, the operating room charge, equipment and supplies, the hospital bed during recovery, and other costs.

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Although he is a full-time professor, Wall last year opened the Danja Fistula Center in Niger, a 42-bed hospital specializing in fistula repair surgeries with an operating room, outpatient clinic and hostel facilities for about 100 women.

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