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"Fortunately, North Carolina’s elected officials — both at the state capital and in Washington, D.C. — recognize too many nonprofit hospitals are taking advantage of vulnerable patients and taxpayers and are taking action to hold them... — read more 

Grand Blanc Township, Michigan: "Local Ascension Genesys retirees are reporting shock and surprise this week after receiving letters saying their health insurance will terminate at the end of the... — read more 

Nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. spent less on their communities than they received in tax breaks, resulting in a "fair share deficit" for what are ostensibly charitable organizations, according to a new report. A hospital index report from the... — read more 

The United States is without peers internationally in the extent and depth of its medical debt crisis. Socialized healthcare in most other wealthy countries means that medical debt is minimal or essentially non-existent as a widespread issue... — read more 

Large nonprofit health systems are reporting financial strain, even as the worst of the pandemic has passed. This financial strain is driven primarily by investment losses. Stock markets struggled in 2022, with the S&P 500 declining in... — read more 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/09/24/maryland-hospital-safety-harm/ State data shows serious harm inside Maryland’s 62 hospitals more than tripled between 2019 and 2022 to 769 incidents that ki-led or injured patients, reaching the... — read more 

Health professionals Carey are concerned about mental health patients after learning Ascension Providence will close the DePaul Center, and the outpatient behavioral health clinic in... — read more 

https://undark.org/2023/10/05/hospital-emissions-deaths/

Ascension Health Alliance and TowerBrook Capital Partners LP will shoulder most of a $45.4 MILLION settlement ending shareholder litigation over their deal to unlock long-term investments in medical billing company R1 RCM... — read more 

"Personal medical debt has reached startling heights — and state lawmakers are taking notice." "In the absence of federal consensus and in anticipation of congressional inaction, state legislators have enacted a variety of consumer protections to... — read more 

Milwaukee-based Froedtert Health has struck a deal to acquire Ascension Wisconsion's stake in Network Health, the health insurer jointly owned by the systems. Each currently owns a 50 percent interest in the insurer, which offers commercial and... — read more 

Revenue CommonSpirit: $34.5 billion ($33.9 billion 2022) Ascension: $28.35 billion ($27.98 billion 2022) Trinity: $21.6 billion ($19.9 billion 2022) Operating loss CommonSpirit: $1.39 billion ($1.29 billion 2022) Ascension: $3 billion... — read more 

USA Health Providence Hospital (University of South Alabama -- NEW OWNER) Cheers in Mobile as the community says "good riddance" to Ascension: Mobile, Ala.-based University of South Alabama announced that Ascension Providence Hospital and its... — read more 

Registered nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, Md. have filed unfair labor practice charges against Ascension Health, one of the largest nonprofit Catholic hospital chains in the country, claiming management has violated labor... — read more 

ascension health is laying off financial staff call just ended ! Shipping jobs overseas !

The annual cost of health care for the average American family hovers around $20,000. Premiums increase yearly, and this is a primary driver of why real wages for average Americans don’t seem to improve. Meanwhile, the CEO of non-profit... — read more 

Not-for-profit healthcare Senators pressure IRS to reign in hospitals By Scott Sowers August 09, 2023 A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is asking the Internal Revenue Service to clarify regulations that govern nearly 3,000 hospitals in the... — read more 

After multiple audits and months of mediation, Central Health sued Ascension for breach of contract in January. Ascension countersued soon after. Ascension officials accuse Central Health of planning to use the contingency fund to BUY DELL SETON... — read more 

According to the American Nurses Association, having a safe nurse-to-patient ratio—usually around one nurse per four or five patients—is critical for proper patient care. Nurses at Ascension facilities, in contrast, are often saddled with twice... — read more 

Ascension Wichita hospital ra---t pleads guilty. "He pleaded guilty to one count of ra-e, two counts of attempted ra-e, and two counts of battery against three patients at Via Christi St. Francis." https://shorturl.at/fkA46

"Ascension closed out its 2023 fiscal year with a $2.66 BILLION NET LOSS, according to financial disclosures for the period ended June 30." “The American healthcare system is experiencing unprecedented operational and financial challenges, and... — read more 

Central Health Budget Suggests Waning Trust in Ascension The budget adds money for direct services By Lina Fisher, 3:20PM, Mon. Sep. 11, 2023 Tweet print write a letter Seton Shoal Creek Hospital (Photo by Seton / CC by-SA 3.0) "Our local medical... — read more 

“I was terrified,” said Jeffery Whitmore, who was checking in for a doctor’s appointment in the building. “I heard a loud bo-m and the building shook. I looked out and saw the parking garage had collapsed ... and we started to evacuate the building.”... — read more 

"Some 270 nurses and radiology technologists at Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital went on strike Monday morning as contract negotiations between the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 40 and the hospital administration... — read more 

Americans never change: "Medical professionals, DME companies and others worked together to take advantage of unsuspecting disabled and elderly Medicare beneficiaries. First, telemarketing companies would contact the victims offering them free or... — read more 

Waco Tribune-Herald: Ascension Providence has sent a letter to patients announcing the Oct. 31 closing of the hospital’s ear, nose and throat clinic on Highway 6. Officials have declined comment on why the clinic is closing. Providence’s... — read more 

Nurses came to downtown Austin Thursday to personally confront the management. About 20 nurses showed up to the downtown Westin hotel, confronting two of the hospital directors and handing them a letter. "When we have bargaining we only ever see... — read more 

A union representing registered nurses and radiology technologists at Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital has voted to authorize a three-day unfair labor practice strike. The strike will begin at 7 a.m. Sept. 11, unless an agreement is... — read more 

Just plug in the word Ascension and see all of the Ascension hospitals being penalized: https://kffhealthnews.org/news/hospital-penalties/

"A little over a month ago., I asked the director of labor relations for Ascension to do all it could to protect the patients they serve in Joliet's only hospital," D'Arcy told everyone. "I asked them to listen to their own care teams and bring... — read more 

Has anybody heard any word on the HCL contract coming up for the helpdesk? I believe the contract was for 3 years this October will be 3 years.

Chicago Tribune: Catholic-sponsored Ascension Saint Joseph in Joliet to lock out "naughty" striking... — read more 

Health care workers are increasingly being as--ulted or shot on the job, making hospitals and clinics among the most dangerous workplaces in America. https://www.axios.com/2023/08/10/escalating-violence-americas-hospitals

Failure Over Time by John Singer U.S. health care is an unfixable economic system, at least in its current configuration. For more than two generations, ballooning health care costs have been a source of concern, confusion, and a sense of... — read more 

At Ascension Saint Joseph Joliet, 500 nurses will strike on August 22nd if the union is unable to come to an agreement with Ascension management. Ascension, a Catholic hospital chain headquartered in St. Louis, operates 14 hospitals and more... — read more 

The average U.S. physician earns $350,000 a year. Top doctors pull in 10 times that. When those simple data points were first presented in 2020, a small subset of physicians came unglued on the microblogging site formerly known as Twitter... — read more 

"A growing number of health care facilities in the Baltimore-Washington metro area have seen their staffs unionize in recent months." Ascension Saint Agnes nurses in Baltimore, Maryland move to create 500-member... — read more 

“The ruling sent a warning shot to all nonprofit hospitals, highlighting that their state and local tax exemptions, which are often greater than their federal income tax exemptions, can be challenged by state and local courts,” said Ge Bai, Ph.D.... — read more 

The CEOs of 178 health care companies collectively made $3.2 BILLION during the coronavirus pandemic, which was 31% more than 2019, according to an Axios analysis of financial... — read more