The company also manages 13 general acute-care hospitals with 1,843 beds.

As the Mayor himself has pointed out, the city's private medical centers might be interested in buying some of the system's acute-care hospitals.

The acquisition included the purchase of four acute-care hospitals and a home health company.

In British Columbia, there is not one private acute-care hospital.

The regulation applies to acute-care hospitals, those that provide general medical care.

Nationwide, almost 450 acute-care hospitals closed from 1980 to 1988, including 13 in Massachusetts.

"The acute-care hospital and its staff are not equipped to care for the dying child."

The five acute-care hospitals that treated Goldstein can receive up to $700 a day during those first weeks.

Six of the city's 11 acute-care hospitals now have black or Hispanic administrators, she noted.

Canadian patients who cannot be sent home must stay in the acute-care hospital.