Needed: Lots Of Patience

• Huge investments and ambitious plans to build national chains
  
• Tough business as land, equipment, personnel costs eat into margins
  
• Players grappling with business mix, some going slow on plans
  
• Managing the scarce resource of doctors, nurses is tough
  
• Inadequate insurance coverage, crucial to grow hospital chains
  
• Demand for more regulation over private hospital chains

***