The Pulse 12:32 pm Tue October 29, 2013  What's Next For
Landmark  The deal still has to close, which officials expect by
sometime in December. But now some of the hard work begins. How
exactly do you turn a faltering hospital around?  Luis Leon,
director of operations with Landmark's new owner, Prime
Healthcare, told me in an interview that any profit margin would
be "nice" from their new acquisition, but that he didn't really
have a number in mind. I have a hard time believing that. But
Leon did tell me that the first order of business is to stem
Landmark's losses and get the hospital to at least break even.
Landmark's president Richard Charest told me that they're on
their way to achieving that, having halved their losses over the
past year and actually generating some positive cash flow in
seven out of the last 11 months.  But how are they doing it?
Turning a money-losing institution around is no small task. To
start, Prime has been sending teams of experts in to help
Landmark "tweak" its processes over t