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N.H. wants hospitals near Mass. border

Hopes specialties will lure patients

By Robert Weisman

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 11, 2012

New Hampshire lawmakers are pushing incentives for so-called destination hospitals to open along the state’s southern border, hoping to create jobs by building a specialty health care hub that draws patients from Massachusetts. The effort initially is focused on attracting a national for-profit chain of hospitals, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, by eliminating a state review process and exempting it from a tax that New Hampshire’s nonprofit hospitals pay. Sponsors hope to eventually bring kidney care, spine surgery, and other specialized medical services to the state.

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