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While it was losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year, Steward paid at least $250 million to its chief executive officer, Dr. Ralph de la Torre, and to his other companies during the four years he was the hospital chain’s majority owner.
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One patient was found unresponsive in a hospital hallway; another collapsed and died while waiting in a registration line. Others died after overworked hospital staff did not monitor their conditions. Four died after developing a mold infection from an outbreak that wasn’t properly contained. All were patients at Steward hospitals.
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In Phoenix, where temperatures topped 100 degrees, the air conditioning failed at a Steward hospital, forcing patients to be transferred elsewhere, according to a court filing. Also, the kitchen was closed because of health-code violations. The state last week ordered the hospital to cease operations.
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Just six years after Tennessee and Virginia lawmakers waived anti-monopoly laws to allow two competing hospitals to merge into Ballad Health, the nation’s largest state-sanction corporate hospital system is falling short on its quality-of-care measurements. Somehow, the system still received an “A” grade from the Tennessee Department of Health.
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From bedsores and falls to performing incorrect surgeries, new state findings highlight an increase in the number of adverse health events inside Minnesota Hospitals that sometimes lead to serious injuries and deaths.
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Last April, ten physicians expressed ”deep concern” over situations unfolding at Glenwood Regional Medical Center, according to a letter sent to the hospital’s governing body from the medical executive committee. It was signed by several chiefs of staff and the chief medical officer. They didn’t have supplies for routine heart procedures. They ran out of the suction canisters that clear patient airways. The company that supplies blood told the hospital their credit was running out. Shipments of food and milk were paused at times due to unpaid bills.
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