11.   As the battle played out, Florida officials considered closing the hospital.

12.   Before most state hospitals were closed, the girl would probably have been committed to a state psychiatric hospital.

13.   A Gilmer, Texas, woman rose to tell Scott how her aged mother suffered when Columbia closed a local hospital.

14.   A person in my job knows that to close any hospital in any district is problematic.

15.   Clarendon closed the hospital and reopened it as a nursing home.

16.   Dora Soto, a patient representative at the High Desert Hospital Advisory Council, said she is concerned about the long drives facing patients if hospitals are closed.

17.   He has closed many hospitals, and services at the one in Jonquiere were scheduled to be severely cut back.

18.   He said that health officials are reluctant to enforce regulations that can close hospitals if they find workers not washing their hands.

19.   If the hospital is not closed, she said, four other smaller hospitals might be forced to close.

20.   Kizer closed hospitals and eliminated administrators.