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The parent company of Milton S. Hershey Medical Center plans to  build a 108-bed hospital practically across the street from rival West Shore Hospital.

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The new hospital will have three stories, an emergency room and all private rooms. It will occupy a 44-acre site in the undeveloped Wentworth Corporate Center, near the intersection of I-81 and north of Wertzville Road in Hampden Township.

The announcement is the latest reflection of the aggressive one-upmanship involving the region's health care systems, especially Penn State Health and UPMC Pinnacle, owner of West Shore Hospital.

And it reflects a new reality in health care: Health systems must draw as many patients as possible. Otherwise they risk -- at least in the minds of their CEOs -- inability to fund the latest services, diminishment and possibly extinction.

Penn State Health, parent company of Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, says it will build a hospital in Cumberland County. Dan Gleiter | dgleiter@pennlive.com

It adds a second hospital to an area where, when West Shore Hospital was built four years ago, some observers argued a new hospital wasn't needed, with Holy Spirit Hospital just five miles away in East Pennsboro Township.

That concern proved valid, given that Holy Spirit Hospital, even after becoming part of Geisinger Health System, has seen a major drop in patient volume and revenue since the West Shore Hospital opened, and is struggling, with talk of a possible sale.

West Shore Hospital, meanwhile, has seen high emergency room volume and bed occupancy rates, and strong revenues.

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Yet the other hard reality is that health care systems need to be positioned to draw the best-insured residents living in their service areas, especially older people covered by Medicare.

Being near the I-81/Wertzville Road interchange is a strategically good location, given the ease of access for residents of Cumberland, Perry and northern Dauphin and York counties.

Easy access to Cumberland and Perry is especially attractive, because of their aging and expanding populations, and their concentrations of government employees and retirees with good health benefits.

Those factors had much to do with drawing Geisinger to Holy Spirit, drawing Pinnacle to the Hampden location, and now drawing Penn State Heath.

Penn State Health's new Cumberland County hospital would just just about a half mile away from UPMC Pinnacle West Shore hospital.

While the trend is for people to spend less time in the hospital, hospital systems today offer the full spectrum of medical care, from the family doctor to outpatient surgery and cancer care. Hospitals and ERs are a critical entry point to all those services.

"When we announced our partnership with Highmark Health in December, we said we are focused on building a regional health network that offers comprehensive care closer to where our patients live," Dr. Craig Hillemeier, the CEO of Penn State Health, said in a news release. Hillemeier was referring to the partnership with health insurer Highmark in which the two have pledged to spend $1 billion on additions and upgrades to Penn State Health.

"Cumberland County is booming with growth, and we want to ensure that the families in that area have easy access to high-quality and diverse health care services. This new facility is one way we can deliver on our commitment to ensure patients across the region are within 10 minutes of our Penn State Health primary care providers, 20 minutes of our specialty care providers and 30 minutes of a Penn State Health acute care facility," Hillemeier said.

The new full-service hospital will also house offices for doctors and specialists, and services such as imaging and lab. Penn State Health further said it will have an "open" staff, meaning independent doctors can gain privileges to care for their patients there.

Plans call for construction to begin early next year.

There has long been criticism of hospitals building expensive facilities close together that compete for the same patients, with the argument being they have a high cost, and the cost of the duplication gets imposed on the community in the form of higher health insurance premiums and related fees. But others, including the health system CEOs, argue that having choice and competition is the best way to guarantee the best possible services at the lowest possible costs.

As it stands, we're in a time when the financial pain of health care seems to grow by the month, perhaps rivaling the pain of the ailments. So the proximity of the competing hospitals -- in this case two that seem financially strong and able -- should amount to a laboratory on whether their claims truly lead to better quality and value. The proof of that, it would seem, would be high quality and relatively low costs compared to other regions.

Hillary Clinton couldn't die this way, not in Nevada, they rushed to Texas, She was having another episode inside the car. Her stillness made Huma and Cheryl nervous, sometimes they thought she was dead.

Scrambling around in her hotel room Hillary Clinton tossed her clothes into her bag and left Nevada.  She had forgotten to call Bill Clinton to let him know that her schedule had changed as everybody thought it had to do with the Nevada elections, but it was all about the FBI investigators following her every movement.  Her doctor had given Hillary her pills so her coughing started again, almost uncontrollably.  It only lasted a few minutes until the chemicals circulated inside her body that would relax her lungs again and reduce her blood pressure.

The horrible contractions of her muscles bothered Hillary the most so she always took her pills alone, locked away and out of site except for Huma and Cheryl at times.  Her outward appearance was getting better as she marked the time watching the alarm clock on the hotel dresser.  In a few minutes she could go out in public again as her energies would be revived and her mood and mobility somewhat improved, they would never know.

She was very tired of this neglected hotel room and she missed the vast rooms and warm sofas of the Clinton Mansion so far away.  Huma would have to do a lot better in the future but the ever-present need for cash held Hillary back at times.  Hillary and Bill Clinton had loaned the Clinton campaign tens of millions of dollars so they could charge themselves interest and claim hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits when the loans were paid back by the stupid little people.

Overbearingly loud Hillary heard Huma yelling at the hotel porters and staff to get their shit in gear, the boss was ready to catch a jet and head to Texas.  Hillary noticed the rotten wood of the desk and the threadbare curtains and the scuffed up carpet in the hall as she walked to the elevator, going down.

Flying like a little darts Huma and Cheryl gently pushed and bumped people out of the way to allow Hillary to walk to her car and through the lobby without stopping.  The two girls spent a lot of time chasing the little people away while always pretending Hillary was too busy at times to stop and chat with voters or even the press.  It was the con job that kept all of them in power and secured their larger than life incomes.

The letters and pencils stuffed inside Hillary's purse made her feel like a boarding school teacher at times always running late as she arrived in her black S.U.V. and the comfortable leather seats.

She would be out of Nevada in less than an hour, maybe Texas would be better.  Sanders was again kicking her ass and South Carolina would also fall to Bernie.

Hillary needed a new plan.

Her stillness made Huma and Cheryl nervous, sometimes they thought she was dead.

They were never sure, she was having another episode inside the car.

They pulled the internal shades and looked at each other.

Next stop Texas and more pills.

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"Good Luck, Break A Leg"

Barack Obama's last words to John Kerry before his latest trip to disgrace America by deal making in Iran was "Good Luck, Break A Leg" and the rest you know.  John Kerry has a great deal of spare time during these tough times for entertainment, good food and a little outdoor activity as the Iran deal is almost paid for by now, billions changing hands around the world. 

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The Dallas hospital at the center of the U.S. Ebola crisis has changed its story about an alleged glitch in its electronic medical records (EMR) system that it originally claimed prevented doctors from seeing that Thomas Eric Duncan informed his nurse he had recently traveled from Liberia. 

The hospital uses Epic Systems, an EMR company founded by billionaire Obama fundraiser Judy Faulkner who also advised the Obama health technology team that, to date, has doled out $25.1 billion in taxpayer-funded EMR industry subsidies. Faulkner says her company, which contributes heavily to Democrats and left-wing causes, now controls 54% of all U.S. patient medical records.

Pentagon EBOLA VIRUS BOMB - Close Contact may affect tens of thousands of human beings. Texas National Guard - Internal Borders Closing - Hospital Nurses Walk Off Job - Texas Federal Reserve warns of currency and trade stoppage Obama Silent Pentagon Secret Meetings

EBOLA VIRUS,  Russia - Putin - Russia is expected to close their national border, including the Crimea in the Ukraine to assure that the EBOLA VIRUS cannot enter their domain.  National leaders ponder America's problem waiting for the EBOLA VIRUS BOMB to hit their own countries.  ISIS ISIL AL-QAEDA TALIBAN Muslim Warriors are expected to infect hundreds of their fighters and cross non-Muslim borders to infect their enemies.  

The Texas borders could be closed within the next few weeks, restricting all human traffic, ending commerce.  the EBOLA VIRUS may be airborne.  The Obama Administation's CDC Center for Disease Control is again lost for words and actions.  They expect hospitals to handle the EBOLA VIRUS PROBLEM.  You have the EBOLA VIRUS before you have the signs that can be detected. In other words, a body temperature does nothing as you are infected before your temperature rises.  All travel from the Dark Continent Africa must be stopped at once.  This is a national and international emergency.  Barack Obama learning that his CDC has no history or success with the EBOLA VIRUS.  Budget cuts have nothing to do with EBOLA VIRUS spreading, the spreading of the virus is being caused by political inaction and cowardly politicians and operatives in the White House.  

FEMA has been notified to make ready emergency hospitals and camps to house EBOLA VIRUS victims within 30 days or less.  National Guard Units and their leadership have been notified that they should plan to move and position troops in a few days.  Pentagon talking of Marshall Law to control all internal borders. 

National Nurses Unions are talking of walking off the job.  Civil Unrest very likely if the EBOLA VIRUS spreads beyond Texas.  One negro from Africa brought the deadly EBOLA VIRUS to America as thousands more enter our country daily.  The black radical president Barack Obama stands firm as EBOLA spreads. 

The DNC is promoting conflict and unrest by advertising that the GOP budget cuts during the Obama Administration cause the EBOLA VIRUS problem and future death tolls.  

The tobacco plant may save the world after decades of DNC Democratic Leaders trying to destroy the tobacco industry through ObamaCare and National Excessive Taxes.  It is planned to open tens of thousand of indoor - all weather - temperature controlled tobacco greenhouses to grow the specific tobacco plant required to produce the EBOLA serum and cure.

President Obama refuses to give the costs of his recent three day political fund raising campaign.  It should be noted that Barack Obama has spent more taxpayer money on his radical agenda to build and pay for 1,000 first class hospitals in Africa. 

The White House Secret Service reports that the White House door is now locked and secure. 

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The American doctor now in Africa knew little about the untamed EBOLA virus but his U.S. Army military hospital unit had been ordered to the dark continent only five days before.

The U.S. Army engineers were being delayed at every turn and the entire mobile military hospital was protected from the rain by the dozens of hospital tents erected on the wet soft ground of Africa. 

Every few hours another Army truck would arrive with tons of building materials like two by four lumber, plywood, nails, saws and hammers. 

The Army planned to build field hospitals to take care of the thousands of long-suffering African EBOLA patients that were slowly making their way to the mobile military hospital.

The American doctor "Andrew" with an intense concentration on his tanned face looked at the young black man with one knee on the wet clinic bed trying to lay down and rest.  There were no off duty hours so Andrew was working almost twenty hours a day and deep in his thoughts he knew that the EBOLA virus could most likely kill tens of thousands of African's in the next few months.

The doctor heard another Army truck driving by the hospital headquarters and he glanced outside to see the sun setting on the surrounding hills which made him feel very lonely for some reason.  It would be dark soon but the sick would walk day and night and eventually find the Army hospital and this one young Army Captain " Andrew Ledger" that was trying to practice medicine in the stone age of Africa.

The world famous reporter was there and traveled the thousands of miles required to look down on the U.S. Army military hospital in Africa from the top of the surrounding hills.

She was the untamed professional so she was comfortable in the wilderness of Africa with a Army hospital carved out of the thick jungle.

He job was to discover the truth about the EBOLA virus but first she would finish her coffee and toss her thermos back into her backpack.

There was nothing modern to look at was the first thing she noticed, lots of trucks and soldiers so she took out her notepad and made her first note; "the son's of cannibals".

She knew President Obama was cheating on the numbers, she would discover the truth if the CIA didn't catch her first.

Hillary Rodham Clinton has a mental problem. Hillary Roham Clinton is a nut job. Jay Carney, the Soviet Lover Little Bastard, tries his best to support Hillary Clinton, despite the facts. Karl Rove had the courage to state an opinion and Obama - Clinton went nuts to stop the news hitting the fan. Clinton is mental which explains her handling of a cheating lying bastard husband President Bill Clinton. Chelsea remains quite about mom's little problem.

Hillary Rodham Clinton has a mental problem.  Hillary Roham Clinton is a nut job.  Jay Carney, the Soviet Lover Little Bastard, tries his best to support Hillary Clinton, despite the facts.  Karl Rove had the courage to state an opinion and Obama - Clinton went nuts to stop the news hitting the fan.  Clinton is mental which explains her handling of a cheating lying bastard husband President Bill Clinton.  Chelsea remains quite about mom's little problem.  “Thirty days in the hospital? And when she reappears, she’s wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury?