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Friday, December 30, 2005

Howard reports 2005 loss amid talks with city

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Howard University Hospital is coming off its worst financial year in a decade as it negotiates a deal with the District to build a $400 million medical complex in Southeast, according to documents obtained by The Washington Times.

The hospital lost about $17.3 million in fiscal 2005 largely because of increasing operating costs and bad debt, according to records filed with D.C. Medicaid regulators. The filings were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

Howard financial administrators said the loss was the hospital's first since the mid-1990s. However, they expressed confidence that the hospital would return to profitability through restructuring and layoffs.

"There is a budget-reduction plan that has been implemented by the management of the hospital," said Sidney H. Evans Jr., the university's chief financial officer. "We expect the completion of that recovery plan to result in reduced expenses and lower physician costs. We're hoping that based on these efforts, ... we will return to profitability."

Administrators said the loss will not hurt the joint venture to build the proposed National Capital Medical Center in Southeast.

The two-year-old proposal calls for Howard and the District to split construction costs of a 250-bed hospital on the grounds of D.C. General Hospital in Southeast, which the District closed in 2001, leaving open only urgent-care services.

An exclusive rights agreement between Howard and the city is expected to go before the D.C. Council next month.

Howard officials said the 2005 loss was caused by a "perfect storm" of factors, including increased labor costs and new rules that limit the number of hours physician residents can work. Howard and three other hospitals reported losses last year, according to a recent D.C. Hospital Association report.

In fiscal 2004, Howard originally reported a loss of nearly $150 million in filings. But last week, officials revised the figure to a roughly $1.2 million profit.

Mr. Evans and Derrick Hollings, the hospital's chief financial officer, blamed the original report of a $149.3 million loss on a computer glitch that failed to record a $169 million revenue line item.

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