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The New York Times - December 5, 1986
If the hospitals accept the financial terms proposed by the state, they would offer a broader range of health care services than they now provide patients with the disease.
They would join St. Clare's Hospital in Manhattan, which has already been designated as an AIDS center.
The five hospitals are St. Vincent's, St. Luke's-Roosevelt and Beth Israel, all in Manhattan; Bronx-Lebanon in the Bronx and the Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn.
Two hospitals on Long Island, the Nassau County Medical Center and the University Hospital at the State University at Stony Brook, have also been approved as AIDS centers, according to a spokesman for the State Health Department, Frances Tarlton.
She said 20 hospitals in New York City had applied for the program and that others were likely to be approved.
Under the program, reimbursements to the hospitals from the state would be 30 percent higher than what they are for patients who do not have AIDS, she said.
The AIDS centers would coordinate all medical care for AIDS patients, Ms. Tarlton said, including dental care, counseling and hospice placement. She said the AIDS centers would be expected to provide such care or to arrange it.
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