Tenet Healthcare

UMass Medical Center and Memorial Hospital merged two decades ago, wanting to keep local control and changing health care in the region.

Having too few players dictating the level of care in the region and seeing more investment in high margin areas of specialty does appear concerning.

Tenet Healthcare has sold nine hospitals since August and will sell four more, but the company has made no suggestion it will offload Saint Vincent Hospital or MetroWest Medical Center.

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Saint Vincent Medical Group announced the move of its primary care office in Auburn and expansions in Worcester and Northborough Wednesday.

At the time of Athol Hospital's merger with Heywood Healthcare, Athol had four days of cash on hand and one inpatient bed filled. Since then, it has swung to profitability.

The three Central Massachusetts hospitals owned by Tenet Healthcare will begin accepting Humana insurance June 1, seven months after the hospitals went out of the network.

Louisiana-based Amedisys Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire Tenet Healthcare's home health and hospice operations in Massachusetts.

Any business offering a similar at a lower price will almost always succeed in the marketplace. Sure, mitigating factors like taxes, regulation and global competition can throw a company off-track; but for services inherently local – like health care – quality and efficiency are central to a winning formula.

Profit-driven health care is a growing local and national trend that doesn't necessarily carry ill effects.