“In the short term, the sale will keep an important medical institution open in Youngstown.

“In the short term, the sale will keep an important medical institution open in Youngstown. You probably won’t see a big difference in hospital operations, except the for-profit will infuse some capital into the hospitals.”

Bill Ryan, director of the Center for Health Affairs, a hospital trade association based in Cleveland, speaking on what Community Health Services may do with Forum Health’s hospitals.

“This is going to be a long-term situation. I think it’s way too early for the federal government to have a ‘mission accomplished’ type of attitude.”

John Young, Jefferson Parish Council chairman, after Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government’s point man for the Gulf oil spill, said that he hopes to turn over his high-profile job to someone else by late September or early October.