Chris Pollock is the third hand transplant patient at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He lost his left hand and most of his right forearm in an agricultural accident in November 2008.

President Barack Obama speaks Monday at the Walter F. Ehrnfelt Recreation and Senior Center in Strongsville, Ohio.

Mel Packer, of Point Breeze, represents the closed Aliquippa Hospital as he lies on the sidewalk along Grant Street near UPMC headquarters, Downtown, on Monday. Several demonstrators, including Mr. Packer and Rosemary Prostko, of Bethel Park, on megaphone, are members of Save Our Community Hospitals.