The outpatient facilities in Pa. are weakening hospitals' financial health, a report asserts.

By Stacey Burling
Inquirer Staff Writer

The growth of outpatient surgical centers is continuing in Pennsylvania, a trend the state's hospitals say is weakening their financial health.

Margins at the surgical centers leveled off during fiscal 2006 at 21 percent after growing 9.4 percentage points between fiscal 2001 and 2004, according to a financial report on specialty health facilities to be released today by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.

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