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Newly privatized St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center has launched a battle for emergency room patients, rolling out its ER wait times via text message, billboard and the Web in a push to commandeer traffic from downtown hospitals. Launched earlier this month along with radio ads to spread the word,...

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