As the consolidation trend continues with hospitals, success stories about stand-alone, publicly run facilities are seemingly few and far between, save for perhaps well-known academic medical centers.
While there are undoubtedly many instances of successful independents, a notable example exists in the Northern San Francisco Bay Area, in affluent Marin County – the region’s level three trauma center, Marin General Hospital, which sits amid California heavyweights like Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health and stiff competition across the Golden Gate Bridge.
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