Cash-strapped nonprofit hospitals and for-profit firms are increasingly forging bonds of necessity and opportunity, but critics question whether the deals help patients, Kaiser Health News reports. "Cash-poor nonprofit hospitals, unable to borrow money for needed improvements in facilities and equipment, are eagerly seeking for-profit suitors. And for-profit hospital companies and investment firms - eyeing the improving economy and the expected influx of millions more insured Americans as a result of the new federal health overhaul law - see opportunity in the nonprofit sector... 
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