11.   Hospitals in turn try to pass the cost on to consumers, Medicare or insurance.

12.   Hospitals are also trying to minimize the cut in future Medicare payments they will face if Congress and the Clinton administration strike an agreement on Medicare.

13.   In recent years, most large hospitals have tried to cut down on latex exposure for patients and employees by switching to powder-free gloves.

14.   In each medical speciality, the two hospitals tried to create a single, unified department.

15.   In Seattle, a hospital tried to invent a harmless female circumcision procedure to satisfy conservative Somali parents wanting to keep an African practice alive in their community.

16.   Ivantsov said that hospital guards need to be more vigilant and that the hospital might try to improve its security by declining to admit civilians.

17.   Just how to do that is something the hospitals are still trying to discover.

18.   Larger hospitals are trying various strategies for building their own bottom-to-top health systems.

19.   Lesar said his study focused on prescribing errors, but said the hospital has tried to improve dispensing.

20.   Many hospitals are trying to change that, reeducating their staff and hiring lactation consultants and peer counselors to promote breastfeeding in culturally appropriate ways.