No, the line was specific to battles.
I did think of changing the HP word in the database to a blank, but I wasn't sure if it would affect an area of the game that wasn't shown with an HP bar.
And I'm 100% sure I did save my game. (more than once) So I'm not sure why changing the script didn't work.

But I erased the HP word in the database and it works well enough.
Thanks again to the both of you for helping with my scripting issue. (and for the URL advice)