Panel Urges Closing of Some State Hospitals
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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.
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ALBANY, New York  - New York Gov. George Pataki on Wednesday said closing and consolidating extra hospitals was "the right thing" for the cash-starved health care system, adding he hoped the legislature would agree.
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Hundreds of people on Monday protested the proposed closure of a public hospital&#39;s trauma unit that serves a wide swath of South Los Angeles and regularly treats victims of gang violence.
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Thousands of sickly newborns could be saved each year if officials closed some of the nation's smaller neonatal intensive care units, according to a new study that suggests larger hospitals are better able to treat the infants.
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To control soaring medical costs, New York state must shut nine hospitals and reorganize another 48 centers to save $1.5 billion a year while also improving the quality of care, a reform commission proposed on Tuesday.
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Thousands of Medi-Cal patients in Santa Clara County may not be able to use their local hospital to deliver babies or have non-emergency operations starting Tuesday.
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An influential panel has voted to recommend a cut in Medicare payments to hospitals and a freeze in payments to nursing homes and home care agencies in 2006.
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A Virginia Supreme Court commission on mental health laws yesterday proposed loosening the state's standard for when mentally ill people should be committed to hospitals, an issue that has come to the fore since the Virginia Tech shootings last spring.
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LOS ANGELES A civil rights debate is surrounding the proposed closure of a trauma unit at a troubled Los Angeles County public hospital.
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First it was St. Paul&#39;s on Burrard St., which had to start closing wards last week due to the illness. And now it&#39;s struck the BC Children&#39;s Hospital.
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More than a dozen wards in hospitals are shut by illness, in some cases caused by a winter vomiting bug.
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Police closed off a hospital here after a shooting was reported inside the building Sunday.
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Critics bemoaning the probable closure of the trauma center at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center seem to be missing an important point: The hospital is killing people.
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The LA County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to close Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center&#39;s trauma unit, dealing a blow to community leaders and other protestors, including UCLA medical students, who fought to keep it open.
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Doctors fear stripping hospitals of key services such as A&E will lead to the eventual closure of the sites.
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By Joshua Norman, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 3--GULFPORT -- The only thing certain about the future of the Veterans Affairs hospital complex on U.S. 90 is it will never be a hospital complex -- public or private -- again.
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An assembly committee has called for an urgent independent inquiry into hospital-acquired infections.