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Dorchester, Mass., Doctors Struggle to Keep Catholic Hospital Open.(Originated from The Boston Globe)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 1996 by Pham, Alex

Jun. 13--Physicians at Carney Hospital vowed in a staff meeting yesterday to do everything they can to keep the 133-year-old Dorchester hospital open.

Carney's owner, the Daughters of Charity, has expressed a willingness to sell the hospital after a plan to merge with Quincy Hospital was rejected by Cardinal Bernard Law because abortions are occasionally performed at Quincy Hospital.

Carney physicians, fearing that the 289-bed hospital may be closed or dramatically changed, sent a letter to Sr. Louise Gallahue of the Daughters of Charity. In the letter, doctors urged the sisters to "maintain the hospital as an acute-care facility under the governance of a local board...."

"We want to control our destiny to keep the hospital the way it is for the...

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