PVMC places its future in community hands

BRIGHTON — Today’s health-care system looks a lot different than it did, say, 20 years ago. In particular, hospitals have undergone dramatic change in the wake of managed care.Today, many of the hospitals that started as community, nonprofit organizations have merged with larger entities, some have contracted with management companies to broaden their support structures, and a few have joined cooperatives to get the buying clout of larger hospitals. Brighton’s Platte Valley Medical Center, like so many others, continually strives to find the right balance between a supportive relationship with a larger entity and community-based management.
PVMC announced recently…