1.   As hospital workers process orders through computers, they should be automatically alerted to possible sound-alike problems, the hospital association has urged in safety recommendations.

2.   Bentley, from the hospital association, said the Boren amendment was a valuable protection for patients.

3.   But some hospital officials said privately that the hospital association was opposed to the legislation because managed care would mean less money for some suburban hospitals.

4.   But that impact may be what the state is in for, hospital association executives warned in a letter to Weld released Thursday.

5.   But the hospital association also is gearing up.

6.   Circumstances are equally dire in West Virginia, where the funding crisis was topic number one at the annual meeting of the state hospital association at the Greenbrier resort.

7.   Clinton will praise the hospital association for its efforts to prevent medication errors, White House officials said.

8.   Derek Woodbury, public-relations manager for the animal hospitals association, said pets will always be at the beck and call of their human masters.

9.   Hospital association threatens to take it to court or file emergency legislation.

10.   Hospital sources said the hospital association is considering a class-action lawsuit against all HMOs, not just Harvard Pilgrim, for nonpayment of bills.