{"id":216308,"date":"2012-10-02T17:09:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T22:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=216308"},"modified":"2012-10-03T16:56:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T21:56:36","slug":"mother-frances-bond-rating-upgraded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=216308","title":{"rendered":"Mother Frances Bond Rating Upgraded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=216311\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-216311\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/10\/thumb_MotherFrances-sign-150x119.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_MotherFrances-sign\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-216311\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2013 Mother Frances Hospital Regional Health Care Center, a part of Trinity Mother Frances Health System, has received an increased bond rating from Fitch Ratings, Inc., an international financial ratings firm. According to Health System officials, the increase from a BBB rating to a BBB+ is based on numerous factors including a stable rating outlook and rapidly growing utilization of health system facilities. Moody\u2019s Investor Services recently reaffirmed its Baa1 rating with a stable outlook for Mother Frances, a rating comparable to Fitch\u2019s BBB+. \u201cWe are very pleased that these two well-respected agencies gave us their vote of confidence,\u201d said Joyce Hester, CPA, chief financial officer, Trinity Mother Frances Health System. \u201cBond ratings are important and an indication of the overall health of a company.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 Mother Frances Hospital Regional Health Care Center, a part of Trinity Mother Frances Health System, has received an increased bond rating from Fitch Ratings, Inc., an international financial ratings firm. According to Health System officials, the increase from a BBB rating to a BBB+ is based on numerous factors including a stable rating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=216308\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mother Frances Bond Rating Upgraded<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 14:58:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216308"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216522,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216308\/revisions\/216522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}