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mue-i mcuiuu Miiu'im.' tram of hospital insurancefor he aged began. over SI I/d billion was paid :n the Nation’s hospitals for services to medicare beneficiaries during the first nine months of the medicare program, she said. Four hospitals in this area are among the b,750 hospitals across the country now participating in medicare. “For 10 million people fvS and over, medicare lias made sure that the door to expert and quality hospital care will not be closed for financial reasons," Mrs. Duly said. Since all patients (n and ovet can now pay their way, hospitals no longer have to hear the financial losses for aged charity patients. Hospitals receive reimbursement of full reasonable costs for tin se rvices they render to medicare beneficiaries, \hout os percent of tin short term hospital beds in this country arein participating hospitals. Many hospitals and other facilities re -examined the ir standards and improved and up graded the ir services to mee t the requirements for participation in the program. "The benefits of these improvements in he alth care . ’ she said ■go not just to the elderly but to the- community as a whole.” Some hospitals are not only providing hospital care unde-r mcdicare, but have- set up m expanded their own extender! care units to offe r posthospital care- to patients. (if the- 250,000 extended care beds now certi fleet to participate in medicare', 20,000 are- parts of hospitals. Mrs. Daly noted that in line- with the- theme of this year’s \ a t i o n a 1 1 !<>spit al Week, “City of Cate,” these hospitals are becoming citie-s of care1 in a true sense as they expand the types of medical care offered to the eommunity. "The- significant efforts of tl-e hospital comnuiiiity have* done- much to make- medicare a success in its first months.”