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The Las Vegas Review Journal reports that the public is paying $2 million a month to provide dialysis and other treatment to illegally present immigrants at University Medical Center. The cost includes providing dialysis to more than 80 such patients.

# posted by Greg Siskind @ 10:29 PM

The New York Times reports that the very popular program to provide citizenship to foreign doctors and nurses has stopped accepting applications. The program, which also includes translators as well as health professionals, is set to expire next month after its initial pilot year of operation and an extension depends on completion of a review of the program by the Pentagon. Called MAVNI - Military Accessions Vital to National Interest - the program has been seen as a major success with more than 1,000 applications approved, several hundred in the pipeline and more than 14,000 inquiries received. While extension is seen as likely, there is no news yet on when that will happen.

# posted by Greg Siskind @ 7:00 AM

From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

An international human rights organization is reviewing whether Grady Memorial Hospital violated the rights of patients of its now-closed outpatients dialysis clinic.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has asked the U.S. government to respond to accusations by the patients' attorneys, who assert that the hospital violated the patients rights to life and well-being. The approximately 50 patients are virtually all poor illegal immigrants who paid nothing for their treatments.

The attorneys want the commission to advocate that the patients continue to receive treatment -- at the hospital's expense -- beyond Grady's Feb. 3 deadline to stop care.

The attorneys also want the patients to receive this care until their legal challenge works its way through the courts.

# posted by Greg Siskind @ 10:23 PM

I've recently blogged about the controversy surrounding Atlanta's Grady Hospital and its decision to shut down dialysis services used by illegally present immigrants. Now a Miami hospital is facing a similar decision, as the NY Times reports.

# posted by Greg Siskind @ 9:46 AM

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

LAS VEGAS HOSPITAL FACES DILEMMA OVER EXPENSE OF ILLEGALLY PRESENT IMMIGRANTS

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RENEWAL OF MILITARY'S FOREIGN DOCTOR AND NURSE PROGRAM DELAYED

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