Two awards for hospital: Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center has once again been named large “Hospital of the Year” by the Louisiana State Nurses Association. This is the third time OLOL has gotten the honor, which is presented for quality service in the health care industry. OLOL also received a Level III Louisiana Performance Excellence Award from the Louisiana Quality Foundation. This is the second time OLOL earned a Level III, the highest mark. Organizations are evaluated for the performance award based on their proven effectiveness, innovation and tracked results.
Disconnected: Subscribers on contract-based cell phone plans hung up on T-Mobile USA in record numbers in the fourth quarter, as it continues to lose the battle against larger carriers. T-Mobile, the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the U.S., says it lost 318,000 subscribers on contract-based plans in the October to December period. The three larger carriers—AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel—added subscribers under contract in the period. For Sprint, it was a reversal of many years of losses. T-Mobile says the decline was due to competition and to revised credit standards for customers. T-Mobile compensated by selling wholesale access to its network to resellers, which means that overall it lost only 23,000 subscribers in the quarter. But wholesale subscribers bring far less revenue.
