1.   Although computerized records can avert errors that generate lawsuits some hospital executives worry that full and accessible records could lower the threshhold for such suits.

2.   And many hospital executives fear that if they give up a single department, their status will erode.

3.   Another hospital executive makes the case for reconfiguration more bluntly.

4.   As hospitals struggle to fill nursing jobs, hospital executives and nurses around the country are squaring off over how many patients nurses can safely care for at once.

5.   Bloom, the Baltimore hospital executive, also finds that her beeper affords more privacy than a cellphone.

6.   A hospital executive says Worth County has never had a pediatrician before Davis.

7.   A select few hospital executives were briefed.

8.   But hospital executives around the nation expressed concern that the federal agency was playing favorites with New York hospitals because of their political connections and financial clout.

9.   But hospital executives love the volume.

10.   But hospital executives in California, Texas and Ohio said they saw no justification for such large disparities because they, too, serve large numbers of elderly patients.