11.   But he quickly found work at Staten Island University Hospital, which has been trying hard to raise its reputation from a community hospital to a world-class cancer center.

12.   But there is both a happy and a sad story behind the recent surgery in a small operating room at a community hospital here near Beijing.

13.   Carney, a community hospital serving Dorchester, is an important presence in a neighborhood that desperately needs to keep a primary-care facility.

14.   Clinton Hospital, a small community hospital, is affiliated with theUniversity of Massachusetts Memorial Health Care in nearby Worcester, Mass., a level-one trauma center.

15.   Community hospitals also have been hit hard.

16.   Consumers pay their HMO a fixed premium, whether they are treated at an expensive academic medical center or a less costly community hospital.

17.   Community hospitals can offer routine primary care at a fraction the price of UCSF or Stanford because they have much lower overhead, he said.

18.   For more than a century, Leonard Hospital, a small community hospital in Troy, N.Y., was nonsectarian.

19.   Good community hospitals do an excellent job of treating most routine medical conditions, but consider a university hospital if you have a life-threatening condition.

20.   Health plans also expect to save money if more patients end up in community hospitals, which generally charge insurers less for their services than teaching hospitals.