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...Brigham staff members--Dr. Constantine L. Hampers, instructor in Medicine, and Dr. Edward B. Hager, clinical instructor in Medicine--founded and still direct the unit in question: the Babcock Artificial Kidney Center, Inc., in Brookline...
According to Dr. Ann H. Pettigrew, acting director of the Division of Medical Care in the Public Health Department, the council's decision was based on Brigham's violation of the provisions in its original contract with Babcock and on the hospital's "general bad faith...
...violation involves Dr. John P. Merrill '23, associate professor of Medicine, who is supervisor of the artificial kidney program at Babcock. This year's prospectus of National Medical Care, Inc. (NMC)--the company which owns Babcock--listed Merrill as a member of its Medical Advisory Board. This violates a provision of the contract which states that the supervisor should have no financial interest whatsoever in the operation...
...unit--the Babcock Artificial Kidney Center, in Brookline--was founded and is still directed by two Brigham staff members, Dr. Constantine L. Hampers and Dr. Edward B. Hager. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health had insisted that it would license out-of-hospital dialysis units only through non-profit-making hospitals. Accordingly, it did not approve the application for licensing which the Babcock Center made last October independently of Brigham. The department did allow the center to stay in operation, however...
Attorneys for Brigham and Babcock drafted a plan whereby the hospital would assume responsibility for the center. The draft, with minor changes, was accepted by the Health Department on August...