Rick Wade Quotations

We're probably in the most intense period of reconstruction. We have a lot of facilities around America that have simply reached the end of their useful life.

Trauma care has become both very technological and very expensive.

Between the filters, the fans and the stack, we figure we'll be 98 percent effective.

There will have to be a move for some kind of deficit reduction. We've been telling members that Balanced Budget Act 2 could be just around the corner.

Or maybe you will go to the hospital cafe where you can be comfortable.

You're treating not just the cancer -- you're trying to treat the whole patient and you're trying to encourage them to maintain a normal life.

Hospitals are looking for the things they can do to make the hospital experience feel a little more normal to people, a little less stressful.

Hospitals are rethinking how to handle a different kind of patient. Basically, the baby boomers are coming. We are the best-educated generation, and we are not a group familiar with delayed gratification.

About 25% of hospitals are in the red.