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Tampa General Hospital is always on the prowl for opportunities to enhance its revenue and create strategic affiliations, but its bid to merge with Citrus Memorial Hospital stems from an unusual occurrence – the 198-bed hospital put out a request for proposals for a provider or other entity to take it over.
“What’s significant about this is there was an RFP,” said Steve Short, chief financial officer at TGH. “An RFP like this doesn’t happen very often. It’s the first RFP we’ve responded…