New York hospitals would have lost $170 million a year.
He died from cancer in a New York hospital at the age of 88.
New York Hospital began to receive patients in the early 1790's.
New York Hospital, for example, was losing $1 million a week in 1987 and 1988.
New York hospitals have not joined the trend, put off, executives say, by high local building costs.
Back in private practice, he worked at several New York hospitals.
Her final years in a New York hospital were tragic, but she was not alone.
New York hospitals leapt at the chance to become so designated.
In 1991, New York hospitals lost $400 million, she said.
New York hospitals may share a large part of the responsibility for the predicament they are now facing.