суббота, 3 марта 2012 г.

HOSPITAL ORDERED TO ACCEPT EMERGENCIES.(Local)

Byline: John Caher Staff writer

The chasm separating Catskill from Hudson is more than a river, as the planned closure of Greene County's only emergency room and intensive care unit has sparked a legal, medical, ethical and emotional debate.

On Thursday, an already tense situation became critical when a state judge ordered that the Columbia-Greene Medical Center's Catskill facility continue accepting emergency patients, and the medical center issued a statement informing medics that patients would be better treated elsewhere.

Greene County residents are fighting a plan by Columbia-Greene Medical Center to close the acute- care portion of its …

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