In the Sunday News’ May 10 lead article headed “$113 MILLION SURPLUS IS A DECREASE FOR LGH”, the newspaper leans over backwards to paint Lancaster General Hospital as a great benefactor of the city and the community while struggling to minimize the implication of so much public money being directed not necessarily in the public’s interest.

LETTER: In your editorial on Lancaster oligarchy, you suggest that the amount of profit Lancaster General Hospital, a not-for-profit entity, routinely posts is more than needed for health care purposes and you suggest that they become philanthropists. Why doesn’t Lancaster General Hospital reduce its charges to its patients, across the board? Wouldn’t that be the […]

On September 16, the Intelligencer Journal reported that Lancaster School Board Chairman Patrick Snyder said “…he’s pleased with the proposed $1.5 million payment to the district” by the Lancaster General Hospital in lieu of paying real estate taxes. It represented a $300,000 increase from the year earlier. Yet at the SD of L’s School Board […]

NewsLanc received a letter from an informed source stating “After reading NewsLanc’s LGH Report#2 (as part of your series of financial reporting on the plentiful treasure chest owned by not-for-profit Lancaster General Hospital), I am dismayed at the lack of edge that the NewsLanc.com reporting offered.” Far be it for the publisher of NewsLanc to […]

NewsLanc borrowed the services of Douglas McVay, Director of Research with an affiliated non-profit organization, to determine what circumstances have enabled Lancaster General Hospital (LGH) to earn the second highest profits in the State, amounting to $136 million in fiscal year 2007. Findings are not meant to detract from the efficiency and competence of LGH […]

All three Lancaster newspapers – The Intelligencer Journal, New Era, and the Sunday News have failed to cover or comment upon the Wall Street Journal’s expose last Thursday of how Lancaster General Hospital (LGH) has been grossly profiting at the expense of our uninsured (for religious reasons) Amish neighbors (and others) by insisting that they […]

On June 28, the Wall Street Journal published an article entitled “Opting Out’ Old Order’ Mennonites and Amish Who Shun Insurance Face Rising Bills. Should Hospitals Cut Them a Break?” The WSJ article anticipates one of NewsLanc’s findings in its extensive ongoing research into the causes for Lancaster General Hospital’s exceptional profitability. NewsLanc’s “editor’s note” […]

While all delight that Lancaster General Hospital (LGH) enjoys profits for 2007 exceeding $136 million, second highest for any hospital in the state, NewsLanc believes it is in the public’s interest to know the causes of these extraordinary profits and whether, in some manner, they are in part at the inordinate expense of the community. […]