101.   The private hospitals could do so without the language, dietary and travel complexities associated with going abroad, she added.

102.   The report also points out that private hospitals can and do meet the needs of many poor families, especially those enrolled in Medicaid.

103.   The second basic problem is that private hospitals feel the big public medical centers have encroached on their business.

104.   The report suggested that the city consider making the private hospitals and doctors liable for malpractice committed at the public hospitals.

105.   The veterans hospitals, unlike some private hospitals, are required to inform patients of any injuries that result from medical errors.

106.   Then death rates were adjusted for demographic and medical differences between mothers delivering babies in public and in private hospitals.

107.   There are not yet any private hospitals or clinics, for example, and the idea of private medical practice has not yet caught on.

108.   They also paved the way for state and federal legislation that guaranteed private hospital workers the right to unionize.

109.   This has pushed private hospitals and doctors to court the Medicaid patients they once shunned, mindful of the government dollars such patients bring with them.

110.   Through the years, the city has paid all malpractice settlements as well as the legal costs of defending the doctors provided by the private hospitals.