Baylor University Medical Center, one of the largest hospitals in Dallas, will lose hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding if it doesn't quickly remedy deficiencies that put patients in "immediate jeopardy" of their health and safety. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services sent Baylor that warning this week after inspectors found several instances of psychiatric patients walking away from the hospital's emergency department before treatment concluded. "We didn't do a very good job of keeping them from leaving," hospital president John McWhorter said in an interview Thursday. The hospital sees about 100,000 patients a year in its emergency department.
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