Q. What can be done about the municipal hospital system?

These were often controlled by the municipal hospital or fire department.

The municipal hospitals get political pressure not to do it.

"There are those who would like to destroy the municipal hospital system."

Things are about the same, or worse, in most of the other 15 municipal hospitals.

Too often, the only medical service is found in a municipal hospital's emergency room, where no one knows a patient's history.

Go into a municipal hospital and see the chaos in the emergency room.

Seven people died today in the municipal hospital, where the corridors were filled with patients.

Such patients must usually rely on municipal hospitals for treatment.

But better or not, people with even a little money try to avoid the municipal hospitals when they are sick.

It is responsible for the operation of the city's municipal hospitals.

The municipal hospitals are the primary source of medical care for the city's poor and by tradition never turn away patients.

They would then move into Arnhem, to take over the municipal hospital.

Yet only municipal hospitals offer treatment to every uninsured person who shows up.

His major problem was the deteriorating quality of care in municipal hospitals.

At some of the city's overflowing municipal hospitals, the wait can be far longer.

Half of the patients treated at many municipal hospitals are homeless, the city says.

Of course, many people in this city never see the inside of a municipal hospital.

Can it afford to own and operate 11 municipal hospitals?

There is a municipal hospital to treat poor people and emergency accident cases.

That would impose a particular burden on cities with municipal hospital systems.

It has the mission and the organization of a municipal hospital but not the government support," he said.

And nursing directors at five major municipal hospitals have left in the last year.

The group attributed the municipal hospital system's problems to a lack of financial support from the Koch administration.

The nurses in municipal hospitals have been working without a contract since the end of last November.