61.   He vowed to shepherd nearly all Medicaid recipients into managed care plans and spin off the public hospital system into private hands.

62.   He jumped in an elevator, getting off at the first floor where he was confront by a retired APD officer now working at the public hospital.

63.   Health care experts also predict that tuberculosis and sexually transmitted diseases would spread faster in the absence of public hospitals, adding significant public health costs.

64.   Health officials fear that emergency rooms at public hospitals will be swamped with immigrants who will no longer use preventive-care clinics.

65.   Health Department experts will analyze data on death rates in the public hospital delivery rooms, Dr. DeBuono said.

66.   He was suspended from his post in November because he allowed a nonprofit group to distribute AIDS drugs to rape victims in his public hospital.

67.   Hill angrily insisted that the city had not made good on its commitment to restore workers where public hospitals had shortages.

68.   He was transferred to Coney Island, another public hospital, the next day.

69.   His grandmother, Maria Gonzales Silveira, said she had gone to two public hospitals and one clinic in Copacabana, which sent the boy to Holy House.

70.   Health experts say that that is a common problem in public hospitals.