31.   Rather than extended periods in a hospital, many recuperating patients are being sent to nursing homes, where costs are lower.

32.   She explained that surgeons are dependent on referrals for patients, and many doctors will not send their patients to a female heart surgeon.

33.   Shells fired by Hutu militias slammed near a major hospital in Goma on Wednesday afternoon, sending patients running down the street on foot, many in bandages.

34.   So surgery was shelved, his drug regimen was tuned up, and the patient was sent home.

35.   Some states have moved to close psychiatric hospitals and send patients to facilities owned by private companies that get patients with private insurance.

36.   Some patients were sent to New Jersey hospitals on ferries.

37.   That meant it had to spend extra money sending patients to hospitals and doctors outside its own system.

38.   Teaching hospitals argue that HMOs pocket that money instead of sending their patients to the academic medical centers, a position that the health plans dispute.

39.   The action by hundreds of physicians forced major hospitals to send many patients home.

40.   The Charter suspensions led MCC to make contingency plans to send patients to other hospitals, Drescher added.