41.   After pressing the Legislature for years to free the hospital from the tight restrictions that accompany government control, hospital officials got what they wanted in January.

42.   After signing a waiver absolving hospital officials of responsibility for his leaving prematurely, he returned to Los Angeles for the USC game against Washington State.

43.   After treatment by the neonatal resuscitation team, the newborn was listed in critical condition, hospital officials said Monday night.

44.   All three have long, very painful recoveries ahead of them, hospital officials said.

45.   Brigham nurse manager Paula Cronin said some deliveries are becoming so packed, hospital officials are now considering limitations as a means of crowd control.

46.   Burhan was dismembered by the explosion, according to witnesses and hospital officials, and his father was in critical condition on Monday.

47.   But deep cuts to the Medicaid program threaten to reverse that trend, many hospital officials say.

48.   But Dr. DeBuono said that hospital officials, who reviewed the state report earlier this week, had said Tuesday that there were no inaccuracies.

49.   But city hospitals officials say they long ago asked the Federal Health Care Finance Administration and the state for assistance that never came.

50.   But hospital officials did not show up for the meeting.