31.   -- Each hospital should have a calling system to insure that a patient who has left the grounds has arrived at the proper destination.

32.   A DuPont spokesman says most hospitals have contracts to buy the product at the very low end of the range.

33.   A Bellevue spokeswoman said that Alston was transferred because the hospital did not have the equipment to further investigate his condition.

34.   A hospital across town had a hyperbaric chamber, which provides higher-than-atmospheric pressures and is typically used to treat decompression illness in divers.

35.   A hospital has a moral obligation, not just a legal one, to act in the best interests of society, they say.

36.   A hospital may not have the necessary specialists available to quickly examine patients and do the necessary tests.

37.   A fifty-cent tube could have saved her life, but the hospital has none.

38.   A hospital would have enormous incentive to shift costs to a home health-care unit, because of the way Medicare reimbursement is set up.

39.   A proposal published in the New England Journal of Medicine Thursday would require hospitals to have their transplant units certified by an external regulator before the surgery.

40.   About five other hospitals still have letters of intent with Columbia which were signed before the raids in July.