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The battle between Prince George's County government and Dimensions Healthcare System over control of Dimensions' board of directors obscures what is really at stake: many human lives ["Hospital Payment on Hold After Ruling," Maryland Briefing, Aug. 2].
Prince George's hospitals -- which include the state's second largest trauma center -- serve more than 180,000 patients a year. Yet the system has struggled financially for years, surviving precariously on short-term funding, the latest being an emergency appropriation of $9 million in May. However, County Executive Jack B. Johnson (D) has made the release of much of that funding contingent on Dimensions Healthcare changing its board of directors, a condition the county is stubbornly insisting on even as the system sinks ever closer to bankruptcy....
Lives in the Balance in Prince George's - washingtonpost.com
Seeded on Tue Aug 7, 2007 3:53 PM EDT
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