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Article: Laying down law at Mount Sinai; New managers face long fight to reduce big losses, overcome transplant scandal.(Mount Sinai Medical Center reports $34 mn loss)(Brief Article)
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- Crain's New York Business
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- October 7, 2002
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Byline: mary sisson
It's easy for Dr. Jonathan Bromberg to see one of the changes at Mount Sinai Medical Center since new administrators came on board.
``The place is a lot cleaner,'' notes the new head of Mount Sinai Hospital's transplant programs.
The halls of the hospital may be cleaned more often, but in most other respects, Mount Sinai-which includes two hospitals and a medical school-is still rather a mess.
The death of a liver donor in January brought waves of bad publicity and cut into patient volumes at a time when the medical center was in serious need of a turnaround. The systems' hospitals are hemorrhaging money, losing $69 ...