Description: Ray Flynn and Edward Kennedy address gathering to inaugurate new Boston City Hospital construction. Steam shovels and welder at excavation site adjacent to old BCH.
Description: Elderly patients remain in hospitals much too long because of bed shortage in nursing homes. Patient using walker. Unoccupied hospital bed.
Description: Massachusetts Hospital Workers union local 880 of SEIU/AFL-CIO on strike. Workers march, chant, picket outside Otis Hospital chronic care facility in East Cambridge. Hanging effigies of three hospital executives. Several police officers stand by.