Hospital uses patients as lobbyists

With a $180 million expansion plan on hold, Providence Holy Cross Medical Center nurses and doctors are telling irritated patients that their care would be much better if the city let the project move ahead. Daily News.

Just ask family members of Councilman Richard Alarcón - whose push to have a full environmental review of the planned expansion helped stall the project.

"I know firsthand what they're doing," Alarcón said. "My stepdaughter had to bring her 11/2-year-old into the emergency room, and she and my wife were told I was stopping the expansion.