Hospital closings loom.

HEALTH facilities; HOSPITAL closures; PUBLIC health; HEALTH policy; PATAKI, George E., 1945-; NEW York state governors

This article presents information on the release of the long-awaited report by New York governor George Pataki's controversial Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century on November 28, 2006. The closing of nine hospitals in the state is one of the recommendations that the commission advocated to bring the broken health care system back on the track.