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Article: ST. PETER'S, ELLIS ON ABOVE-AVERAGE LIST FEDERAL OFFICIALS REPORT HOSPITAL MORTALITY RATES.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- March 12, 1986
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Byline: New York Times with staff reports
The Health and Human Services Department is preparing to release today lists of 269 of the nation's hospitals that have mortality rates significantly higher or lower than the national average, the first such lists ever compiled.
Twenty-seven of New York state's 291 hospitals, including St.Peter's in Albany and Ellis in Schenectady, were among those identified by the federal government as having higher-than- average mortality rates for elderly Medicare patients.
The Federal Health Care Financing Administration said 16 hospitals in the state, including most major teaching hospitals, had below-average ...