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          nursing care for newborn infants, and instruct mothers in                   
          postnatal self-care and newborn care.                                       
               For patients in intensive care units, the nurses and patient           
          attendants provide care of a more sustained and specialized                 
          nature than that provided to the usual medical and surgical                 
          patients.  Nurses and attendants also staff the emergency room.             
               Acute care hospitals generally provide numerous ancillary              
          services in support of basic hospital and nursing care provided             
          to patients.  Ancillary units include laboratories for performing           
          diagnostic and routine laboratory tests of all kinds, a blood               
          bank for procuring, receiving, and storing a supply of blood and            
          blood derivatives to be used in surgery and patient treatment, an           
          electrocardiology department for performing a variety of                    
          diagnostic testing of patients with heart disease, a radiology              
          department for taking radiographs and fluorographs (often                   
          including a separate cardiac catheterization laboratory,                    
          ultrasound laboratory, nuclear medicine facility, angiocardiology           
          center, and other units performing various radiological                     
          functions), and an anesthesiology department for assisting in               
          surgery and other in-hospital procedures by administering gases             
          and other anesthetics.  The various ancillary departments employ            
          many specially trained personnel who perform specific technical             
          service functions necessary for patient treatment.                          
               As of December 31, 1986, acute care hospitals owned by                 
          petitioners were located in 26 States and four foreign countries.           




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