Health Industry

Cuts in Medicaid lead list of threats to the growth and profitability of children's hospitals.

Critics say generous compensation of CEOs raises questions about the tax-exempt status of nonprofit hospitals.

Florida Regulators Twice Turned Down Nemours Foundation's Request For New Children's Hospital In Orlando, where there were already two other children's hospitals.

Just a few years ago, Denver had one aging children's hospital, but today there are two new ones

Trying to keep up with the rapidly rising number of children, two hospitals in the Phoenix area have bucked the recession and spent heavily on new facilities.

Children's hospitals are a growing business in Pennsylvania, with two large ones in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and a third costing $207 million under construction near Harrisburg.

Nationally, there is one bed for every 2,500 children, but Ohio has one for every 1,400 kids.

Healthy profits and assets fuel billions in spending by Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth hospitals.

From its modest beginning as an eight-bed cottage hospital founded in 1882, Chicago Memorial has evolved into a huge institution with nearly $2 billion in assets.

Many of the largest children's hospitals have grown into big businesses with substantial assets and millionaire CEOs.

Hospital executives say spending on charity care is only one of many community benefits they provide as nonprofits.

Jackie Judd talks with Gil Gaul about his series, Building Ambitions, which looks at the big money world of children's hospitals in the United States. Gaul discusses his series and says big costs, amassed wealth and children's hospitals' unique place in health care in America make it a growing power player in providing health care in America.