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...mother was not as stoic. She cried hysterically as a hardened representative of the Humana Hospital--Greenbrier Valley in Fairlea, West Virginia loudly demanded assurance that she could pay for her son's treatment...
Incidents like the one in the Humana emergency room are not rare, despite federal regulations. This year, a Miami resident, Edwina Hayes, suffered with a bullet in her back for 13 hours as she shuttled from one South Florida Hospital to another before an emergency room finally admitted...
Allan Lansing, director of Humana Heart Institute International in Louisville, expects to begin further tests soon on the Hemopump, which was approved for human trials by the Food and Drug Administration last March. "I'm impressed," says Lansing. "If this pump does work, it could be of enormous benefit to many patients." Eventually, he says, it could be available in coronary-care units and emergency rooms to treat heart attacks immediately after they occur. "It won't replace anything that is now available," says Heart Surgeon Jack Copeland of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center in Tucson...
Shortly after he received an artificial heart in 1984, William Schroeder was euphoric. "I feel like I've got ten years left right now," he exulted. But that was not to be. Last week at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, the former Government quality-control inspector, who was 54, suffered a massive stroke. Tuesday morning he was discovered unconscious with labored breathing; 30 hours later his breathing had stopped for good. With Schroeder's family gathered round, doctors pronounced him dead, but there remained a last grim task: to turn off the pneumatically driven device that had kept him alive...
...Humana Center in Louisville: Michael Graves, Piper Auditorium, Harvard School of Design, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge...