Word: ardito
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trial of a consumer-fraud lawsuit filed by the California Nurses Association against the 508-bed Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley. The suit claims that the hospital enforced a gag rule on its employees to "cover up the essential nature" of its patient-focused care plan. Viki Ardito, Alta Bates' acting vice president of patient-care services, calls the lawsuit frivolous: "It's about maintaining the union's people and their dues...
...admitted and those on the mend are quickly shown the door. But hospital management sees a large number of high-priced R.N.s as the wrong prescription for survival in a shrinking market: "Models like patient-focused care are the way health care's going to go," says Alta Bates' Ardito. "That's the way it's going to be delivered. The unions are defying gravity." Of course, defying gravity has a way of getting someone hurt. The question now is, Will patients take the fall...