Nothing kicks off the holiday season quite like an announcement of hospital closures and potential job losses. A report by New York’s Commission on Healthcare Facilities, also known as the Berger Commission, called for the closure of five New York City hospitals: St. Vincent’s Midtown, Cabrini Medical Center, Brooklyn’s Victory Memorial, the Bronx’s New York Westchester Square Medical Center and Queens’ Parkway Hospital. Commission Chairman Stephen Berger said the cuts would improve New York’s healthcare system by merging hospitals and cutting back on the number of empty beds. The mergers could also lead to a predicted loss of more than 4,000 jobs. So, the number of hospitals decreases, the number of workers decreases, but the quality of patient care … increases? Today’s lesson: The more a hospital is cramped with patients and the fewer employees there are to take care of those patients, the better patient care will be. Somebody better call NBC; we need to borrow that shooting star from those “The More You Know” TV spots.