Comptroller cites hospitals for mammogram waits

NEW YORK

That's according to City Controller /*John Liu*/.

He relied on city reports from 2009.

They show the longest wait was at /*Elmhurst Hospital*/: 50 days for an urgent mammogram and 148 days for a simple screening mammogram.

The /*Health and Hospitals Corporation*/ says the controller ignored more recent reports, which it says shows high-risk patients received mammograms within 24 to 72 hours.

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