The Nation - News from April 13, 1987

The New York City hospital where Andy Warhol died rejected state Health Department charges that it had given inadequate care to the artist. New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center said in a statement that “nothing in the allegations received from the Department of Health” altered its assessment that Warhol received appropriate care. On Friday, the department cited the hospital for 15 deficiencies, including giving Warhol an antibiotic to which he may have been allergic. He died Feb. 22, a day after undergoing routine gallbladder surgery. The hospital said he died of cardiac arrest.