1.   The hospital is doing a lot of research into new ways of treating asthma.

2.   And it asserts that too much of the assessment for indigent care simply covers up the poor job hospitals do in collecting bills.

3.   A simple hospital will not do.

4.   Business partners would have to promise to follow the federal privacy standards, just as doctors and hospitals do.

5.   But at least some Valley hospitals already are doing that, according to Steve Smith, safety expert for Phoenix Baptist Hospitals.

6.   But charity hospitals can do as well.

7.   But nonprofit hospitals as a group provide more such care than do for-profit hospitals.

8.   But, he said, what are hospitals supposed to do?

9.   Can the hospital do this?

10.   Good community hospitals do an excellent job of treating most routine medical conditions, but consider a university hospital if you have a life-threatening condition.