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Weatherhead’s J.B. Silvers comments on how a country-wide effort might be necessary to keep hospitals up and running

Ohio hospitals are prepping for big financial losses in pandemic

Modern Healthcare: J.B. Silvers, a professor of banking and finance, spoke about the collective, country-wide effort that may be required to keep hospitals in business during the crisis: “So you can keep somebody going by funneling more cash into them, but if at the end of the day, they violated their bond covenants and they show major losses, accounting losses, then they’re going to have to live with that over the long term.”