Walk into any urban hospital, and you can see what a baby born addicted to crack or heroin looks like.

Nationally, studies show the average big urban hospital on the mend by 2001.

The urban public hospitals are often associated with medical schools.

Three days ago, I spent five hours in the emergency room of a major urban hospital.

"Yet if you work in an urban hospital, it's out there, more than some other diseases we're trained to recognize."

Some urban hospitals might have to cut back on services, other health experts said.

In one respect, the Senate proposes to help urban hospitals.

The feeling was more like a hotel than a major urban hospital.

Stories like these are all too familiar at urban hospitals in the state.

On the other hand, local officials recognized the public value especially of urban hospitals.