21.   But no patients were ever admitted, he said.

22.   By the time her son was born, the hospital had stopped admitting patients.

23.   Dr. Bruce Steir is charged with knowing that he botched an abortion but failing to have his patient admitted to a hospital.

24.   Earlier studies have found that hospitals admitting higher numbers of AIDS patients have a lower death rate than those admitting fewer patients.

25.   For instance, in Massachusetts, nurse-midwives cannot admit a patient to a hospital under their own name, only under that of a physician.

26.   Hospital operators, meanwhile, are raising profits by admitting more patients and reaping savings from recent mergers.

27.   Hospice patients are admitted to the program when their prognosis is six months.

28.   Industry officials have said that allowing them to admit more patients who pay privately would help offset anticipated Medicaid cutbacks.

29.   Lenhoff said that if nursing homes had more employees, they could save money and lives by preventing many problems that require patients to be admitted to hospitals.

30.   Lauersen, whose practice is on Park Avenue, now admits patients through St. Vincents Hospital and Medical Center in Greenwich Village.