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Hospital sale prompts new rules

April 21, 1997
By: Susan Batt
State Capital Bureau

A Missouri House committee has approved new rules prompted by the sale of Deaconess Hospital in St. Louis.

Susan Batt has the story from Jefferson City

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Monday night, the House Critical Issues Committee recommended that the full House pass guidelines for the sale of not-for-profit hospitals.

St. Louis County Senator Betty Sims says she created the bill in order to protect communities from loosing their medical care.

But one critic says he would feel better about the bill if it gave citizens even more protection.

Actuality: Roy Holand
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OutCue: "...emergency room service."
Contents: He says that people in the community are too busy to realize what is happening to them until the new organization comes in and cuts back medical services, nurses and emergency room care.

Now the full House begins debate.

From Jefferson City, I'm Susan Batt.