FEDS RARELY PUNISH HOSPITALS FOR TURNING AWAY PREGNANT PATIENTS

(AP) — An Associated Press analysis has found that hospitals are rarely fined for violating a federal law that is supposed to guarantee that patients with medical emergencies get the treatment they need. Only a dozen hospitals have been penalized over the last two years for violations of that law. That's despite more than 100 hospitals turning away pregnant patients in that time, leaving some to m…