
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, October 20, 1995                   TAG: 9510200077
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: CHARLOTTESVILLE                                LENGTH: Short

ALLEN: NO SALE FOR MCV HOSPITALS

Gov. George Allen has ruled out any sale of the University of Virginia or Medical College of Virginia hospitals by ordering that option dropped from a hospital privatization study.

``You can put up a `not for sale' sign,'' Allen said in a telephone interview Tuesday with The Daily Progress of Charlottesville.

The teaching hospitals in Charlottesville and Richmond treat a majority of Virginia's poor and most seriously ill patients, and train the bulk of the state's doctors. The hospitals face a widening gap between state allocations and the real costs of providing indigent care and medical education.

- Associated Press

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