1.   And hospitals continue to fire nurses while hiring people without medical educations.

2.   As hospitals continue to consolidate, centralize, and diversify functions, competition will increase at all job levels.

3.   The hospital continues to struggle to correctly bill insurance providers and state and federal indigent health care plans.

4.   Although no adult-to-adult procedures have been performed since then, the hospital has continued to hold informational meetings for prospective donors and recipients.

5.   And since conservation-oriented payment methods such as capitation have failed to catch on, physicians and hospitals continue making more by doing more, unchallenged by anyone.

6.   As hospitals continue to wrestle with the issue, people like Ciancioso say they are being punished.

7.   Afterward the Columbia hospital continued to submit the fraudulent claims.

8.   But Carter said that it had become increasingly difficult for many hospitals to continue caring for the uninsured without any state reimbursement.

9.   But the state health commissioner, Len Fishman, said hospitals would continue to treat people who cannot afford to pay.

10.   CHW chief executive Lloyd Dean said the hospitals could not continue to operate with such heavy losses.