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DemocratandChronicle.com DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE 2 A MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2008 N.Y. LOTTERY Winning Numbers Sunday Some lotto tickets not up to scratch DENNIS CAUCHON USA TODAY Feeling lucky today? Then don't buy a $20 scratch-off ticket for the New Jersey Lottery's "$1,000,000 Explosion" game. Your chances of winning the $1 million top prize are Z-E-R-O. The six top prizes were awarded months ago, but the $20 tickets are still on sale. The best prize available today is $10,000.

State lotteries are coming under renewed criticism for selling scratch-off tickets after the top prizes have been given away. The latest challenge comes from a university business professor who says he intends to sue Virginia for allegedly selling $20 million a year in lottery tickets that had no top prize available. About half of the 42 states that have lotteries including Florida, New Jersey, Michigan and Tennessee keep selling tickets after the top prizes are no longer available. The states say the practice is fair because lottery tickets and Web sites disclose the practice. Also, other prizes are available.

"We have a pretty large second tier of prizes that people would be happy to win," Florida Lottery spokesman Jackie Bar-reiros says. Sales of scratch-off lottery tickets have soared since the introduction of high-priced tickets designed to have huge jackpots $1 million or more is common that can be won instantly. California, New York, Massachusetts and other states now end scratch-off games when top prizes are gone. The changes often followed lawsuits that were unsuccessful but generated bad publicity. Last year, the Texas Lottery changed its tune after a state senator introduced a bill to end the practice.

States have won most lawsuits by claiming governments are immune from the suits or are not covered by consumer protection laws. In August of 2007, Washington and Lee University professor Scott Hoover bought $5 tickets for a game called Beginner's Luck in Virginia. Later, he learned the top prize was awarded in July. Using public records, Hoover calculated that the state sold about $20 million annually for three years in tickets when a top prize wasn't available. He says the state should compensate these players.

NEWSMAKERS Winehouse fights with grabby fan Amy Winehouse was packing a punch at the Glastonbury music festival in London. After taking the stage Saturday, the troubled singer climbed down into the pit and scuffled briefly with a reveler. It was unclear what sparked the altercation but witnesses say a fan tried to grab Winehouse. Winehouse sang for about an hour in front of an estimated crowd of 80,000. In robot.

A lonely little robot made millions of friends during the weekend and even outgunned Angelina Jolie. WALL-E, the Pixar Animation tale of a robot toiling away on a long-abandoned Earth, debuted as the No. 1 movie with $62.5 million in ticket sales, with Jolie's assassin thriller Wanted opening in second place with $51.1 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The previous weekend's No. 1 movie, the Warner Bros, comedy Get to third place with $20 million.

Kung Fu Panda finished in fourth place with $11.7 million, while The Incredible Hulk was fifth with $9.2 million. In passing. The death of a fashion model who plunged from the ninth floor of a Manhattan building has been ruled a suicide. The medical examiner's office said Sunday that Ruslana Kor-shunova (roos-LAH'-nuh kor-shoo-NOE'-vuh) died in the fall the afternoon before. The fall was from her apartment in the Financial District.

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Last week, Lakeside officials informed their employees that one of the commission's likely recommendations would be to merge their facilities with Unity Health Systems. They plan to oppose that recommendation, according to Stapleton. "We have respect for the commission and recommendation, but the decisions about (a merger) are for our health system and our health system's board to make," he said Friday. "We're not in the position that we need to merge with anybody." The 2020 Commission was charged with determining the number of beds needed by each hospital. Strong, Rochester General and Unity hospitals have asked for state permission to expand by 123, 36 and 85 beds, respectively, for a total of 244 new beds, and to modernize their facilities.

The commission also considered medical staffing and training, consumer preferences, ambulatory services, medical technology, rural-urban health care issues, insurance reimbursement and graduate medi TT i 1 Excellence in Service Excellence in Design Excellence in Product Knowledge BRIGHTON 2240 Monroe Ave Rochester, NY 14618 585-271-8196 On a final note Just married. Sports legends Greg Norman and Chris Evert have married in the Bahamas, People magazine reported on its Web site. The couple, both 53, wed at sunset in front of 140 guests on Saturday evening, the report said. Norman is a pro golfer who has won two British Open titles among scores of other tournaments, while Evert is a former world number one in tennis, winning 18 Grand Slam titles. Kristen De Vito compiled these items from wire reports written statement, "I think what's at stake here is whether or not our community has a high-performing health system that provides the right care at the right place at the right time." Without modernization, the quality of care will suffer.

But overbuilding would create excess costs and could risk putting out of business some hospitals in our multi- county system of care, said Weisberg." Among the trends the 2020 Commission has identified is migration across county lines. Thou Weisberg sands of patients living in Finger Lakes counties are discharged annually from Monroe County hospitals with low-severity health needs that likely could be met at a hospital closer to home. While the three largest hospitals in Monroe County are overly full, hospitals in surrounding counties tend to have only 60 percent to 80 percent occupancy of their staffed beds. Meanwhile, hundreds of patients hospitalized outside Monroe County who sought to transfer to Strong for specialized care between July 2006 and June 2007, for example, were turned away because there was no room. "I think Rochester does need more beds," said John Galati, president and CEO of Clifton Springs Hospital in Ontario County.

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It would build a six-story expansion to house 144 beds, including the 36 new ones, 34 beds restored to regular use that had been decommissioned about two decades ago and 74 private beds created by splitting up two-bed rooms. Cost: $134 million. Timeline: 2009 to 2012. Unity's Park Ridge campus in Greece, now at 256 beds, wants to modernize and add 85 beds. It would build a fourth story with larger rooms (to fit bulky devices) and a new physical therapy and rehabilitation gym for joint replacement patients and upgrade its medical and surgical units.

A brain injury and rehabilitation unit, currently at Unity St. Mary's Campus, would move into the space. The hospital also proposes to create a new outpatient dialysis unit and an outpatient gastroenterology and endoscopy unit, add a 40-bed transitional care center and build four cottage-style duplexes to house 80 seniors now living in the hospital's third-floor nursing home. Cost: $143 million. Timeline: 2009 to 2012.

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The last thing we want is another Genesee Hospital." That Alexander Street hospital closed in 2001 because of financial problems. Adams led a different Rochester task force that concluded in January that far fewer beds are needed than the 244 the hospitals are requesting. The Acute Bed Need Task Force, also convened by the Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency, recommended adding between 83 and 147 beds by 2015, but it didn't break out specifics for each hospital. That range is based on the number of new beds needed if the average patient stay continues to be 5.7 days in Monroe County or if the average stay can be shortened by a half day. Executives from Strong and Unity hospitals on the task force voted against the conclusion, saying more beds are needed.

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