1.   Ideally, hospitals provided each iron lung patient a single nurse, but few hospitals could manage that, especially during epidemics.

2.   The hospital provides both conventional and alternative medical treatments.

3.   The hospital provides life-saving care to premature infants.

4.   An alternative view is that hospitals provide a valuable primary health service to people excluded from health centres, which focus services on mothers and children.

5.   Another New York State law requires hospitals to provide new mothers with information about postpartum depression.

6.   At the same time, fewer hospitals are providing free care to the indigent, funneling even more patients to Truman and the other public hospitals.

7.   But Armas said hospitals must provide foreigners with good care because their money is the glue that holds the entire health-care system together.

8.   But only a few hospitals provide such care.

9.   He filed a bill to require hospitals to provide gowns that cover patients from their shoulders to their knees, exposing only their arms.

10.   He said hospitals will provide personal care.