Montefiore Medical Center has amassed a private network of hospitals and clinics and a patient management system that makes it easier to run a profitable operation in the Bronx, which like Brooklyn has a high percentage of poor patients.

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Giordano's management also took the opportunity to overhaul the company's inventory system, improving the operation's just-in-time supply chain.

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