51.   His local represents workers at dozens of private hospitals and nursing homes in New York City and Long Island.

52.   Immediately upon his release from jail, Hernandez entered a private hospital for detoxification and rehabilitation.

53.   In a number of other cities, private hospitals in poor neighborhoods have succumbed to the combined pressure of government cuts and the rise of managed care.

54.   In early April, the company also delivered the prototype of a full-color retinal display called Spectrum to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, a large private hospital.

55.   In Baltimore, the city medical department is working with private hospitals to track outbreaks of illness.

56.   In private hospitals, women are met by their own doctors, who oversee their labor and deliveries.

57.   In recent months, some patients have been stuck in costly private hospital beds because of bed shortages at Westborough and Worcester state hospitals, mental health professionals say.

58.   In Ohio, Manning turned Metrohealth into the trauma center for greater Cleveland and made the hospital, originally intended for the poor, competitive with private hospitals.

59.   In the middle of all this, the VA has decided that its hospitals can now engage in the sort of creative fund-raising practiced by private hospitals.