TrueNews: Community Lawsuit Planned: To Find the Murder of St. Vincent's Hospital

Monday, April 19, 2010

Community Lawsuit Planned: To Find the Murder of St. Vincent's Hospital

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Community Lawsuit Planned
To Find the Murder of St. Vincent's Hospital
Pols who planned to hide behind a meek press as they look the other way as a hospital is being made into a developers housing project, might want to think again. As True News has reported the sick are going to be hurt by the closing of St. Vincent. Beth Israel seeing influx of ex-St. Vincent's patients to ER The pols and the press have been completely silent about the impact on the closing of this hospital. The lawsuit plans to get to the bottom of why the hospital was closed and why the pols meekly followed and will show New Yorkers what will happen to their health care once the hospital is closed.

True News even beat the NYT which did not file this story until 1:50PM Today, True News posted at 9AM Today Lawsuit Aims to Keep St. Vincent's Open

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