Word: brighams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first of these clinics, the Babcock Artificial Kindney Center in Brookline, was the focal point of a Public Health Council controversy earlier this year relating to the Center's connection with the Brigham Hospital...
...staff members at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital--the Medical School's teaching hospital in Roxbury--are on their way to making millions of dollars from a profit-making artificial kidney unit, if their plans succeed...
According to Massachusetts law, only a non-profit making hospital can supervise operation of kindney machines. The Brigham was in fact temporarlly licensed to supervise the Babcock Center, but the Public Health Council felt that the agreement between the Hospital and the Center did not clearly place the responsibility of the operation on the Brigham, as is required. As a consequence, the Health Council postponed granting Babcock a permanent operating license...
...according to Brigham director Dr. William E. Hassan, Jr., member of the Faculty of Medicine, Merrill resigned his position with NMC after the prospectus was issued...
Pettigrew said Thursday that the alleged violation involving Merrill is only an example of Brigham's unreliability in the contract agreements, and that a more important problem has been Brigham's refusal to take full responsibility for the artificial kidney operation...