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At San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), the Nursery was closed to new patients for the first time in years. Non-emergency surgery was canceled because no beds were available for recovering patients. (Personal communication) Severely ill patients could spend 12-24 hrs in the Emergency Department, waiting for critical care beds. Emergency Room (ER) workers were having to care for both gunshot or heart attack victims and critical care patients waiting for beds. In the first two weeks of December '97, SFGH diverted critical ambulance patients to other hospitals 56% of the time. (SF Examiner, 12-17-97)
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The Urban Health Campus is the new vision for D.C. General Hospital and its satellite network of primary care centers and school-based health program. The Urban Health Campus is at the heart of a fully integrated, fiscally sound, health system dedicated to improving the health of low-income communities through an organized primary and preventive approach. To accomplish this goal, the health campus will leverage private, federal and local government resources to assure predictable revenue streams, maximize third-party payments and assure the provision of cost-effective care in appropriate treatment settings. Creation of the health campus will be guided by a philosophy of accountability, including the recognition that the health of a community is a shared responsibility of all its members.
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Launched in 1963, the show's storylines revolve around the fictional city of Port Charles, New York, and the staff at its General Hospital. Initially focusing on the romances of the hospital staff, storylines branched out to cover relationships of various families such as the Hardys, the Webbers, the Spencers, the wealthy Quartermaines, and the noble Cassadines. General Hospital popularized the concept of the soap opera supercouple, with Luke and Laura. Their wedding was the most watched event in daytime serial history. Other storylines have followed an action-adventure format, with con artists and mafia bosses, spies and corporate intrigue, and travel to faroff lands, but nearly all stories have some connection to either an injury or illness at the Hospital, or one of the doctors or nurses who work there.
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The PBC2 vision does not permit continued operation of D.C. General Hospital in its current space, because the old facility is inefficient and drains scarce District financial resources. Facilities costs alone are running between $10 million and $15 million a year. A new hospital could be capitalized from the savings of not having to operate a white elephant.
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