City Room: Historic New York Hospital Crumbles
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Part of the gray stone facade at the Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island fell to the ground last month, seemingly a matter of gravity picking up where negligence left off.
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The Waikiki War Memorial Natatorium, meant to stand for the ages as a memorial to Hawaii's World War I veterans, has suffered decades of neglect, leaving it crumbling and almost forgotten. Now it's at the center of a debate that pits Honolulu's new cost-cutting mayor against historical preservationists.
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Scores of patients at the V.A. hospital in Albany were put at risk, and employees say bigger concerns were dismissed by officials.
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Walter Reed Army Medical Center began repairs yesterday on Building 18, a former hotel that is used to house outpatients recuperating from injuries suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan and that has been plagued with mold, leaky plumbing and a broken elevator.
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LOS ANGELES -- Activists who fought hard to bring a hospital to south-central Los Angeles after the 1965 Watts riots are in mourning since the announcement that their beloved but deeply troubled hospital failed a crucial federal inspection and will lose more than half its funding.
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A three-story building collapsed in   Manhattan on Monday morning after what may have been an   explosion, resulting in injuries, officials and witnesses said.
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Fire broke out on the top floor of a historic cancer hospital in west London on Wednesday, forcing the evacuation of patients, the fire brigade said.
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Hospitals â public and private, large and small â are spending hundreds of millions of dollars renovating, rebuilding and expanding their emergency rooms.
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BAGHDAD -- In a city with few real refuges from sectarian violence -- not government offices, not military bases, not even mosques -- one place always emerged as a haven: a hospital .
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The Museum of the Moving Image, right, in Astoria, Queens, will close on March 23 for a $65 million reconstruction that will double its size. âThe back wall of the building has to be demolished, and in order to do that, thereâs a huge amount of vibration and noise,â Rochelle Slovin, the director of the museum, told Reuters. âIt would not be a good idea to have the public in the building at that time.â When the work is completed, the first floor of the museum will be transformed, and the structure will have a new three-story addition. The building will house a 262-seat theater, a 71-seat screening room, an education center, expanded gallery space and a courtyard. Groundbreaking for construction is scheduled for Feb. 27, with reopening expected in late 2009. In the meantime no full-time employees are to be laid off, Ms. Slovin said, and museum members will continue to have access to screenings and programs in all five boroughs.
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A three-story building collapsed in   Manhattan on Monday morning after an apparent gas explosion,   causing injuries, a frantic rescue operation and sending smoke   billowing into the air.
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The opening of the Ara Pacis Museum should have been cause for celebration. That the building is a flop is therefore a major disappointment.
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Fire breaks out on top floor of Europe's largest cancer hospital
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Hospitals accused of keeping thousands of seriously ill patients in 'holding patterns'
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As New York's population ages, several hospitals use house calls to improve care.
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Desperate for a solution, a doctor tries the hardware store when hospital equipment won't do.
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ALBANY, Nov. 18 - A report commissioned by Gov. George E. Pataki paints New York's hospital system as too large and too costly, with money being sent in the wrong directions, and recommends closing some hospitals around the state while developing a system of strong regional health care centers.