Other hospital systems in the region are also looking to close home health care units.

"The Commission made a decision that we did not want our entire hospital system to be in a state of financial collapse."

The college provides this training at no cost to the hospital system.

More important, most hospital systems provide little or no clinical decision support to providers.

It's the largest public hospital system in the country, with 45,000 employees and a nearly $3 billion budget.

To cut medical costs, the Government wants to consolidate the public hospital system.

A man died last week because he could not have simple surgery in our hospital system.

"But we've never really had a test of the hospital system where people in large numbers required sophisticated medical care."

But she said no city had eliminated a public hospital system entirely.

He was also a corporate manager for two regional hospital systems.